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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl
Sounds about right.
To start: I think there's a lot to be justifiably alarmed about right now.
But if you remove the theatrics and histrionics and rhetoric and temperament stuff, and you shouldn't, but if you did -- so far it seems like a pretty standard clown show GOP administration. Make the Hyde Amendment permanent, prioritize re-writing regulations to favor whatever the extraction industries want, re-institute torture. One of the things to bear in mind about the Modern GOP is that like all ****ing 16 of those jokers who ran for President were unanimous about torture, and trying to outdo each other in the debates about who would brutalize Muslims more.
Trump is bad but let's not lose sight of that fact tons of the actual bad stuff, so far, is just standard fare GOP policies. I don't consider that hopeful in the least, I just point it out to note that Trump versus a league average GOP President would be much the same on the merits, but with a smoother and more politically savvy veneer. If we find this stuff truly galling, and you should, and Trump self-immolates, gets impeached, quits, dies of a heart attack, or whatever, I hope that we don't lose sight of the fact that the personage of Trump is only part of the problem here, and there's a whole political movement and tons of would-be Trumps with a more politically graceful tact waiting out there.
Last edited by DVaut1; 01-26-2017 at 10:46 AM.