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drewbitt ◴[] No.45172364[source]
This would be damning for every politician except Trump and those close to him.
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bediger4000 ◴[] No.45172827[source]
You've mentioned something unique about Trump. What you wrote is true, beyond doubt, but the question is "why Trump?" Explanations I can dream up are unsatisfying.
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glhaynes ◴[] No.45176208[source]
The best theory I can come up with is that we had no immunity to someone who is just utterly shameless and never even considers apologizing. Every scandalous story helps him because it makes people forget about the one from a few days ago. Turns out that’s a superpower in early 21st century America.
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twixfel ◴[] No.45180135[source]
That's not an explanation, though. Why are the American people so weak to someone so uniquely awful, evil, mentally disabled and morally degenerate? Is it replicable? Can the next gigabastard just not care too, and the Americans will fall in line? Or does it die with him? What is it about Trump and what it is about Americans?

It's hard for me as a foreign admirer of the USA not to conclude that a small majority of Americans are fundamentally quite venal and nasty. To think that I used to believe that shit Reagan said about the US being a city on a hill! Crazy.

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bediger4000 ◴[] No.45181280[source]
Your first paragraph is exactly right in it's questions. Depending on how successful Trump ultimately is, will his successor be able to continue.

Your 2nd paragraph is hard for me, a US citizen, to see. Reagan was in fact a complete faker and a liar. US religious leaders are also fakers and liars.

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1. twixfel ◴[] No.45184255[source]
I am not invested in Reagan’s legacy by any means. I only wished to communicate that I am, or was, very far from being anti American.