One thing I think people forget is how relentlessly *stupid* every day of the Trump administration was. He doesn’t need to do a big elaborate complicated conspiracy, he can just (e.g.) email a list of every U.S. agent in the field to Putin and say it’s to own the libs, and *that* will have immunity.
It was too much.
At the time, I encountered more conservatives who knew politics and those who treated it as a sport they began watching.
They knew I am liberal. It is disheartening to deal with people who believed they knew the right things. So many just repeated FOX/ talk radio info, not facts
Even from an outside perspective, it was a nightmare because there was a new scandal *every day* for the entire term of the Trump presidency.
It's hard to remember all the ways in which it was a shitshow.
They weren't prepared to hold office last time. This time they are (Project 2025) and its hard not to think that serious crime isn't baked into the plan.
I think the most upsetting part of the ruling is how it seems to be made specifically to prevent one special boy from being prosecuted for crimes because it’s covering a bunch of stuff that no normal person would even think to do.