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1.00@PlasmaBallin Assuming we get to keep elections in the next patch, the Republican Party should not be let off the hook for Trump. They were the ones that led to him and supported him almost every step of the way.
@StarkLN also even though trump's appearance, rhetoric, and general personality are super different to bush, his defacto political platform in his previous term was barely any different, certainly no changes on the scale of allowing non-landed men, women, and people of all races to vote, or abolishing slavery and segregation, or legalising gay marriage and abortion
@TheAllMemeingEye I dunno if Id agree with not any different. I would agree with is an extension of, though
@StarkLN I'm not american and haven't formally studied politics, but I gather even with a trifecta the main things he did were lower taxes for the rich, extend the existing border wall into empty desert, put tarifs on foreign goods, and backstab rojava, which all seem like relatively small changes compared to the entirety of pre-bush US history
@TheAllMemeingEye I mean, he did J6, his COVID handling was awful, and he basically strongarmed the fed into not raising rates. Plus, with Trump as the pres to be and surrounding himself with loyalists Im not too confident he will stop at that next time
@PlasmaBallin Is this the media's fault? People are pretty ignorant about lots of things. And I'm sure I've seen several news stories highlighting that tariffs could make things more expensive.