All he had to do was pursue a moderate agenda and act in a truly bipartisan manner.
He could have said to himself, "Look, you are president on a technicality and the majority opposed you in the election...so govern for them, not just the authoritarian nationalists who got you through the primaries."
He should have renominated Garland for SCOTUS. He should have stopped with the border wall nonsense. He should have pursued a trade strategy that did not employ tariffs. He should have stopped tweeting. He should have nominated qualified people to his cabinet. Etc.
But it isn't in him.
Trump could have been a good president
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Agreed. He didn't have to be the a-hole he ran as. He could've shut down all of his opponents with magnanimity and pushed popular ideas like medicare for all, min wage increase, tax increase on the wealthy, budget cuts for the military.
But that's the thing, he's too autistic to be a good president. It's not an act. He means the stuff he says, even the crazy stuff.
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He came to the White House telling the most powerful people in the world that he was going to end their rent extraction schemes that were f*cking over the American people. Predictably, they used the power of media to turn him into clown hitler.
Predictably that was all talk (in many cases he didn't even try to hide his real intentions) and first thing he did was give them a huge tax cut at your expense.
Sorry that you got fooled, magi boy. The rest of us just aren't as dumb as you.
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He came to the White House telling the most powerful people in the world that he was going to end their rent extraction schemes that were f*cking over the American people. Predictably, they used the power of media to turn him into clown hitler.
Predictably that was all talk (in many cases he didn't even try to hide his real intentions) and first thing he did was give them a huge tax cut at your expense.
Sorry that you got fooled, magi boy. The rest of us just aren't as dumb as you.The more you yap about how the brand of politics you support separates you as more intelligent than other people, the dumber you probably are.
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The more you yap about how the brand of politics you support separates you as more intelligent than other people, the dumber you probably are.
the more I yap about how you voted to give tax cuts to the rich and put America even further in debt, the more embarrassed you get.
Quick, blurt something out to distract everyone. benghazee!
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He came to the White House telling the most powerful people in the world that he was going to end their rent extraction schemes that were f*cking over the American people. Predictably, they used the power of media to turn him into clown hitler.
Right, right. It was the media's fault he tried to extort Ukraine, refused to negotiate with Congress on the wall, started an unwindable trade war, and had the highest executive turnover in history.
"Those terrible things Trump does and the GOP supports? They're really the fault of the Democrats!"
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The more you yap about how the brand of politics you support separates you as more intelligent than other people, the dumber you probably are.
the more I yap about how you voted to give tax cuts to the rich and put America even further in debt, the more embarrassed you get.
Quick, blurt something out to distract everyone. benghazee!Pseudointellectual liberals love to proudly talk about how tax cuts are bad for reducing government deficits. It's like you don't understand economics but you cling to this basic little understanding of public finance. So cute.
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Pseudointellectual liberals love to proudly talk about how tax cuts are bad for reducing government deficits. It's like you don't understand economics but you cling to this basic little understanding of public finance. So cute.
They're also bad for generating economic growth it seems.
Best economy since... Obama.
Geez, as I recall Obama's economy was pretty mediocre. Conservatives must have dementia bad.
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Wheres the deficit now? I forget. Anyone remember? Sequoia?
Pseudointellectual liberals love to proudly talk about how tax cuts are bad for reducing government deficits. It's like you don't understand economics but you cling to this basic little understanding of public finance. So cute.
They're also bad for generating economic growth it seems.
Best economy since... Obama.
Geez, as I recall Obama's economy was pretty mediocre. Conservatives must have dementia bad.How is your climate change policy going to promote economic growth?
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Look, Trump's a man with flaws. But the democrats and media clearly never had any intention of working with him. Their mission was seek and destroy from day 1. You have swallowed the negative narrative against him hook line and sinker. Ergo, we get threads like this one.
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Whatever you need to tell yourself to sleep at night, Lindsey Graham.
Look, Trump's a man with flaws. But the democrats and media clearly never had any intention of working with him. Their mission was seek and destroy from day 1. You have swallowed the negative narrative against him hook line and sinker. Ergo, we get threads like this one.
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Look, Trump's a man with flaws. But the democrats and media clearly never had any intention of working with him. Their mission was seek and destroy from day 1. You have swallowed the negative narrative against him hook line and sinker. Ergo, we get threads like this one.
Look, Trump has been treated better than any president in history. Dems have effectively opposed him on nothing. It's physically impossible they could oppose him since Republicans control every branch of govt.
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Whatever you need to tell yourself to sleep at night, Lindsey Graham.
Look, Trump's a man with flaws. But the democrats and media clearly never had any intention of working with him. Their mission was seek and destroy from day 1. You have swallowed the negative narrative against him hook line and sinker. Ergo, we get threads like this one.Ha, MAGA neckbeard pwnd