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You've got to take the rough with the smooth. We have some fun stuff, but also we're a bloody-handed empire that sees itself as a "city on a hill". You can't form a coherent picture of how we got to a second trump term without looking at the ugly bits.
Trump goes back to Nixon (he basically hired all the same people that tried to cover for him, Ailes, Stone, others).
Nixon getting away with things to save the country further embarrassment goes back to the post-Civil War events.
Events leading up to the Civil War, ie. slavery, starts in the Americas between 1492 if you count the Caribbean, the 1500s if we're talking Ponce DeLeon, and the 1600s if we're looking at just the people that directly lead to modern America.
I truly hope Trump can be looked at less consequentially in the future, but we're not at the end of his time in politics yet, so who can say. He's got a lot of competition for worst president ever, he's just at the front of everyone's mind because we're in the present. I remember when we thought no one could top Bush Jr.
Ah yes the Bush years, a gilded age in conservative decency.
Jesus wept.
It snapped me out of being conservative, so there were a few positives.
I'll take nearly any dub at this point
I feel ya. I hope they spend more time infighting for power and attention and don't harm too much actual important stuff, but I won't hold my breath.
It's going to be a long couple of years...