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It certainly gets us to keep talking about him. Which seems to be his primary skill. It does not have any basis in reality, however.
by rootusrootus 8mo ago
It certainly gets us to keep talking about him. Which seems to be his primary skill. It does not have any basis in reality, however.
- XorNot 8mo agoThis is what people keep saying until the administration does something and then dares the courts to stop them.
- watwut 8mo agoReality check is that he has actual track record on delivering or trying to deliver on his anti-democratic impulses. In terms of personal monetary gain, he is the most successful president of history. He is also actually successful at making Project 2025 reality. He is on the way to cause very real harm (economic, physical) to blue cities too.
- rootusrootus 8mo ago> In terms of personal monetary gain, he is the most successful president of history. And in terms of legislative impact he is the least successful president in history. I don't like the corruption one bit, but on balance it is probably the less damaging of the two. > He is also actually successful at making Project 2025 reality Not at all, though, on any kind of permanent basis. He is showing that you can make the executive branch do shitty things with executive orders. What he isn't managing to do is codify any of this in law. There's a reason that the universities and other 'elites' knuckle under and cut deals with him -- they know that these deals are informal and temporary, and go away with the next POTUS. If Trump took this agenda to Congress and got it enacted into law it would persist for many more years.