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Are you sure this is how he'll be remembered? Half the US thought him preferable to AOC and Hillary Clinton. It's hard to conclude in any other way than that th
by tormeh 10mo ago
Are you sure this is how he'll be remembered? Half the US thought him preferable to AOC and Hillary Clinton. It's hard to conclude in any other way than that the perception of his legacy will be equally divided.
- crote 10mo agoMost of his actions are, to the majority of the population, merely transient actions. A few letters on an arts center are trivial to remove, a cancelled wind turbine farm easy to forget. The CECOT stuff deeply impacts only a small part of the population, so it'll at most be a few lines in a history book. But demolishing a third of the White House? That'll be clearly visible in every single aerial shot of the building during every single political event for years. It is, quite literally, a scar on the political face of the country. It's like turning the Pentagon into a Square, or blowing Washington's face off Mount Rushmore, or selling Alaska back to Russia: you're not going to forget when you are constantly being reminded of it.
- bdangubic 10mo agoactions might be transient but, like or not (I certainly do not) will be the President that is remembered and talked about more than just about all of previous ones combined
- nutjob2 10mo ago> Half the US thought him preferable to AOC and Hillary Clinton What do those people have to do with anything besides being popular right-wing targets? His approval rating is currently around 42%.
- bdangubic 10mo agowhat were his predecessors approval ratings? 42-45% is as good as you’ll ever going to get in America outside or extreme situations like post 9/11.
- exasperaited 10mo agoObama performed notably better by any standardised measure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_approval_rating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_app... This, of course, grinds the incumbent's gears more than anything else.