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Makes you think the Dems should have been harder on Trump. Although he has been convicted he has served no time at all. And he could still run for President aft

• jaybrendansmith 2y ago
  I will never understand this.
  • quantified 2y ago
    Too many people would not have believed that the consequences of a free Trump would have been this. This is so far outside the range of norms.
    • toomuchtodo 2y ago
      This was always the obvious outcome, those who didn’t believe it were delusional. I won’t speak for anyone but me, but this is exactly where I thought we’d get based on the chain of outcomes.
    • maximinus_thrax 2y ago
      Those too many people are naive if they think Trump operates within 'the norms'. The first term showed us he doesn't, I don't understand why everyone would have thought differently. Did everyone's memory get fried during the pandemic?
• cadamsdotcom 2y ago
  The US seems to always be first with innovations, while the rest of the world follows & learns from what works and doesn’t. The playbook being run by DOGE et al is impressively complex since it is up against a complex system of checks and balances, but so far said playbook is working.. I suspect the US situation helped France treat Le Pen as an actual criminal rather than going with a light touch “just in case a criminal is what voters want”. The lessons will be learned but it’ll take 10-20 years for forward-thinking leaders to emerge and help bake them into the political systems of the future. Your unborn children will thank you for living through this.