The destruction that Trump and his cronies are doing to the office of the presidency...

[Locut0s]

I see a lot of talk about how terribly incompetent, how crude, crass and unfit for office Trump is. All of which is true, the man is a crude pig. A criminal. I don't see a lot of talk though about the destruction all of this does to the position itself. I have no illusions that past presidents were all great people. Nixon is a famous example. The Nixon tapes subsequently released show that he was a strong antisemite as well as a criminal. Reagan did untold damage to government, in many ways the GOP has taken up Reagan's baton and run with it further. But there's no mistaking that Trump sets a new low watermark in terms of public image. Which sets a precedent that future leaders can follow. What damage do you think Trump's regime will have done to the office itself? Assuming we get out of all this alive.

[samnsara]

1. we will have to fumigate the entire white house!!!

[ginnyinWI]

2. After Nixon and Ford,

the people elected Jimmy Carter, an outsider to Washington politics. That kind of acted as a "reset" to restore the sense of what had been lost, I think.

Maybe something like that will happen again. Not looking for an outsider, just someone safe and uncorrupted.

[MedusaX]

3. Most likely...,,Regression toward the mean

Obama, IMHO, raised the bar substantially beyond the "average expectation" of presidential behavior....

45 has pretty much eliminated the bar altogether....

If / when there is a 46.... 47... 48
we should experience a return to "average" (pre-obama) for both the behaviors actually demonstrated by a Potus & the expectations held worldwide.