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We have survived other rogue presidents, with enough work and determination we will survive this one. It can take years to crawl out of the darkness Trump has put the country in, but we’ve done it before.
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Barnie2years 8 July 9
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Name a previous president in modern times that was anywhere as vile, ignorant, bigoted, corrupt, and self-serving as Trump? None. GW Bush was an incompetent dolt but I don't believe he was a bad human being. You'd have to go back to Nixon forty-five years ago to even come close to Trump. Trump is truly deplorable garbage utterly lacking morals or ethics.

Going backwards; Bush was not president, he was just a puppet for Cheney and the neo-cons, a somewhat dopey front man. Nixon was a paranoid self loather who let fear of not being elected overrule his love of country. The rest of the presidents mentioned in this article (if you read it) held the office long before 24 hour news cycles and hordes of spin doctors, so to say that none of them approached Trump in their malfeasance is at best a guess, and unfounded. Many did exactly what Trump is doing, or worse. Joe average citizen would have had little idea of what was actually going on in Washington. Most were circumventing congress in one way or another (like Trump), taking profound steps to alter the country (Louisiana Purchase, Native American relocation, the draft, stacking the Supreme Court and some others not even mentioned here).
So we have survived these Presidents, we will survive this one. There may be bloodshed in between, the sides have become very entrenched in their own bunkers, which usually doesn’t end well for those in the middle. But we have come back from the Civil War, the routing of Veterans from the Mall, the Teapot Dome scandal, the Panama Canal scandals...I have faith our Constitution will survive a mediocre business con man.

@Barnie2years By "modern times" I meant in the past 50 years or so. Individually, each of the presidents listed did some shady things but it would take about half a dozen of them combined to reach the level of corruption, lack of morals and lack of ethics that Trump has displayed.

No doubt we will survive but the damage may take decades to repair.

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I think it may be too difficult as now we have a war on facts and information. If we don't come to a consensus about truth and factual information I'm not sure we can fix it this time.

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Sorry, I cannot recall any other "leader" who has been this virulent. Dumb, plenty of those, yes, but not one willfully ignorant of the basic principles of this country and refusing all advice.

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None of these past things even come close to the ongoing idiocy of Donald Trump. If I have but only one example to give it would be that the American people are paying for the Trump tariffs. These are no more than an increased tax on goods. Importers bring in the goods and pay for them as they come in, then Americans who buy the goods pay more than before to compensate the extra costs. Silly people believe that China and Mexico are paying more. That isn't how it works.

It gets worse when the Trumpers claim this is all Trump's way of bringing jobs back to America. At some point they all think someone will start making the goods in America again and make them for less. This idea is nonsense that defies logic.

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