Huh, looks like a Factual article to me.
None so blind as those who will not see.......

Many of us did experience how that first term went and especially after the term ended the unbelievable fallout from one unwilling to stop. I seriously wonder where some people get their information. Certainly not from facts on the ground.

That is who we once were before money and criminality took over. The fact that the ultra-conservatives are able to be where they are, at this point in time, shows something is very wrong with our core beliefs. Unfortunately, too many of 'us' don't want to get more involved with serious issues and simply want to enjoy life (especially after retirement) says something negative about the average American.

He was addressing non voters, boasting he is so good, they will only have to vote this one time as he will have fixed everything by the end of his term, then they could go back to being non-voters.
Just Trump boasting at rallies, the Messiah type politician he likes to play. Don't know the demographics, but must be a lot of Christians that don't vote, the audience he was addressing.

Trump is rather psycho, reads the moment very well and is charismatic, a trait many possess. Along with self interest. He is vain but this vanity atm is about his legacy, he's already crawled to the top of the social heap in terms and wealth and status ie legacy those areas done. I suspect he is a builder rather than a destroyer of things so hopefully that is what his vanity is thinking, how he wants to be remembered by history. His willingness to engage, just talk and meet, with Nth Korea gave hope but droning an Iranian general/ diplomat on a mission in Iraq did not. He's is a worry, but he 100% American, of that I am sure. He won't destroy the nation.
Lot's of paranoia/ anxiety about Trump, but blame democrats for getting things to the stage where he is the better/ more attractive option to many.

@puff I think you flatter him waaay too much. He simply says what he feels like at that moment (and often contradicts himself as he knows his enablers will believe anything he says). He also cannot be contradicted so there is also a fear element. Anyone who follows anything about this POS already has a lot of screws loose.

@pedigojr Know thy enemy. Calling him a POS may be fun, but by accepting what he is eg psycho ie lacks empathy, vain, self centered but very charismatic and reads the moment very well. Psycho's manipulate people very well. No emotional intelligence.
Understand the enemy and you are better able to defeat him eg play on his vanity, which the Lincon project does brilliantly. If unprepared, he will perform better at public speaking events like debates so you better be prepared.
The best way to beat him is to be the attractive alternative, which you would think wouldn't be that hard. But democrats/ Biden admin have managed to fuck that up too.

@puff The man is a malignant narcissist and is only good at manipulating the system. He'd happily use democracy to destroy democracy. In addition...he's a POS.

@puff Knowing thy enemy does not always mean saddling up to them (it could also be a she). With Trump no matter what you do once you show your true colors you are under the bus. He is so self aggrandizing one has to constantly bow down and kiss his ass. That is asking too much of any self-respecting person. How much did Churchill and FDR kiss up to Hitler!? Knowing ones enemy often means fighting them with all one has at their disposal.

I think what the oligarchs fail to understand is the simple fact that they also need us to buy their crap. Notice how many ads are being placed in periodicals, on the internet and all around. Our rights and income is being taken away but then we are told to buy more to keep the corporations afloat. It's the same short shortsightedness among the Christian Nationalists (who are apposed by basic Christian groups who see where this will take us) that there are hundreds of sects that come under the wing of 'Christian' so which one should reign? We may end up having a modern day reformation and anyone who has studied history knows of the violence and death that caused.
At one time I discovered that the apartment in which I lived in the old city of Heidelberg Germany (built in 1683 and then destroyed in 1690) had been a victim of the reformation. The city had converted to Lutheranism and, in 1690, the French Catholics laid siege to the city in punishment for their change. The apartment, in which I lived, had a cellar under the living room. Most probably a family went to the cellar to escape the bombardment (as did most during a time of siege) but were buried alive. When I came along the space had never been lived in (it was, at first a stable, then a smokehouse and finally a storage area). I wondered about this and asked a local historian and he told me what probably had happened.