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Micah@rincewind.run |
he gave his followers permission to indulge all their worst impulses loudly and in public this explains both the depth of their devotion to him and the way in which he was uniquely destructive to American society above and beyond the horrific policies he implemented
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thee michael whiteshoes
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he's a pustule on the ass of America
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Michael Walsh, Verified #1 Criston Cole Hater
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And in classic major American media fashion, the only behavior they ever got outraged over during his time in office was someone politely asking Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave their restaurant.
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Lenora Rose
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I rather liked the suggestion one should tell his followers one entirely understands why they'd follow someone who so perfectly encompasses their own morals and values. And watch the result.
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DJDynamicNC (he/him)
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My cautiously optimistic view is that being a shit bag isn't enough to hold the base together into a single coalition. What allows the fact-free miasma to cohere is Trump; without him we should see factions, heretic purges, etc and hopefully it falls apart. DeSantis collapsing supports this I think.
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DJDynamicNC (he/him)
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Yeah there's constant arguments about whether Trump is a uniquely bad Republican and I think both sides have a point in that politically, nah, Republicans are REALLY BAD and he's pretty standard to that, but *culturally* he's just much more impactful, in a terrible way, than any other GOP leader.
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Mighty Apollo
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He is the anthropomorphic shit stain they all wish they could be.
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Filigree Needlequeen of the Desert
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I'm not particularly religious, but I have never seen so clear an avatar of all seven deadly sins.
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Ken MacLennan
@historiken.bsky.social
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The aspiration to be an utter asshole and get away with it seems to run deep in large swathes of American society.
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@drsixsmith.bsky.social
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Thomas Friedman, the day after Trump won the election, declared it a “moral 9/11” which is uncharacteristically clumsy and also uncharacteristically not wrong.
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B J. Witkin
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Nailed it. Unfortunately.
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Danner
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They love him because he hates who they hate.
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Anachronym
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Yeah, unfortunately this is exactly it. And there's no squeezing that shit back into the tube now. It'll take a generational shift to reverse it.
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Micah
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exactly - policy-wise, both McCain and Romney would have been horrific presidents but neither would they have ruptured civil society the same way Trump did unfortunately, one of the impacts of Trump is that whoever comes after him will be culturally similar because that's what the base wants now
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Francesco Caporusso
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He didn’t cause this, He just uncovered what has been simmering beneath the surface for so long. This has exposed what people in the U.S. really think.
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