Trump As PRESIDENT Is The Biggest Blunder In Our History. May Well Prove Our Undoing.

[TheMastersNemesis]

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1. Well I seem to remember reading about some minor skirmish about slavery.

Never mind slavery in the first place....

But yeah.

Donnie sucks bigly.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Agree

People, even on the Left, don't seem to fully grasp the dire situation we are in. Trump and his cabal are like other criminals and strongmen who've gained power in other countries, they don't just up and leave power because of some laws or elections. You're going to need a crowbar to ever get these hoodlums out of power.

And Trump is a sociopath who will resort to anything to save his own hide, up to and including full nuclear war.

[BSdetect]

4. Fully agree, too much residual reverence for "The Presidency"

[poboy2]

9. up to and including full nuclear war.

YES

[Tumbulu]

10. Agree

I think too many people have led awfully nice lives....they can not even imagine what is going on.

[workinclasszero]

12. We are in severe danger of seeing democracy snuffed out in the USA

No doubt about it.

Trump is a damn lawless gangster employed by the dictator of Russia to bring America to its knees.

And the republican party is giving him cover as he goes about the job.

[Different Drummer]

3. To his credit, Dotard hosted a couple of really cool reality shows.

Surely that counts for something.

[democratisphere]

5. Certainly drumpf is the Biggest Political and Presidential blunder in our history.

America has severly FU many other times throughout its history.

[Freddie]

6. And he's president on a technicality

Like getting out of your speeding ticket because the cop didn't show up to traffic court.
If this fiasco didn't show the country that the Electoral College is flat-out wrong, I don't know what will.
When we get in power again we have to make safeguards so the entire government is not run by the party of corruption. The Founding Fathers, wise as they were, did not anticipate that.

[MichMary]

18. Minor correction:

The Electoral College is not a "technicality;" it's Constitutional, just as the First Amendment is.

What safeguards do you recommend to correct this situation?

[poboy2]

7. Extinction level event. Existential threat to Western Civilization. -nt

[AnotherMother4Peace]

8. What concerns me is Putin/Trumps cult MAGAs that are itching to use their weapons. They've got

their own armed militia in the US, just waiting for the dog whistles and commands.

[workinclasszero]

16. Let me just put this here

All liberals are not unarmed.

[Tumbulu]

11. I doubt we will recover

Sorry, it was an obvious coup, it remains obvious. I can't figure out why so few people get this.

The goal has been achieved. The dismantling of the Federal Government.

[HipChick]

13. Exactly..

[workinclasszero]

17. The sacking of Rosenstein and Mueller will make the coup clear

and in its final stage.

We either win back America in the streets and the ballot box in the fall or night falls on America for good.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

20. Trump is strongly signally that his intent. Any day now, I suspect. nt

[Johnny2X2X]

14. They don't respect our Democracy

The legal system and the institutions of our Democracy aren't going to be enough to get them out. Trump is not going to give up power because of the legal system, and soon he won't care about the electoral system.

So trying to remove him from power using the legal and election systems might not work.

[Polly Hennessey]

15. We survived

a civil war, two world wars, a Great Depression—I believe we can survive Trump. Perhaps the lesson to be learned is that we should not give the presidency and congress to one party. The consequence from this debacle is twofold — a diminished presidency and diminished reverence for the presidency.

[triron]

19. Complacency in the general population and complicitness in government and the media

are insidious.

[poboy2]

21. ...and possibly fatal. -nt