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The title of this thread is self explanatory
As a political figure I think he represents an ugly-minded ignorant streak the US is going through. Literal ignorance, where political disenfranchisement and low levels of critical thinking have fused into cognitive dissonance you could cut with a knife. As a person he continually promotes narcissism, greed and xenophobia which is doing just about anything but making America great. As a leader he's expanded the swamp and paved the way for further steps into corporate oligarchy, where America is becoming less and less good at anything except overspending on defense and milking the non-rich for all they're worth.
Other reasons why I like him
That's like eating **** to spite overbearing health nuts.How can you hate someone who is the best antidote that we have to political correctness?
I shudder to think where we would be at had Hillary won. All I know is it wouldn't be pretty.Trump didn't win the Presidency, the Democrats lost it.
Many conservative and mainstream people find Trump problematic,
but then, what alternative is there as the Democrats continue to the
Left?
That's a damn good point there.How can you hate someone who is the best antidote that we have to political correctness?
The title of this thread is self explanatory
I shudder to think where we would be at had Hillary won. All I know is it wouldn't be pretty.
Given the polarisation and the gridlock this would have meant in Congress, it wouldn't have been that much better. As President she might have handled somethings better given her past experience, and the tone of discussion would have been different somewhat, but the situation would have challenged anyone.
To you Americans? To us it wouldn't have been prettyI shudder to think where we would be at had Hillary won. All I know is it wouldn't be pretty.
Technically the US is still a part of the Paris Accord agreement untill Nov 5th , 2020 which is when President Trump can formally withdraw the signature.Over time, I have come sort of "resigned" to the distinct possibility that Trump will be re-elected in 2020 and may serve a second term. The Democrats have talked, but they haven't seriously improved the situation. So, I can't hold Trump personally responsible for many of the things his administration has done or what he represents in the Republican Party. There is a context to his actions and much bigger forces at work within the United States that made this bizarre and disturbing polarisation possible and continue for at least the duration of his administration.
He's got about 30-40% of the population on his side and he has kept that support throughout his term. (Or as he put it: "I could shoot somebody and still not lose voters!") If you look at the entirety of his speeches, the man clearly does have quite a lot of Charisma and does know how to play a crowd. His supporters believe, rightly to an extent, that something has gone deeply wrong in the United States and that "someone" has to address it. That is actually something most Democrats can agree with, although the specific issues, policies and personalities involved change even as the substance of the discussion remains the same: "What went wrong and how the hell do we fix it?" At this point, I don't think Trump has the solutions, nor do I think the Democrats do either. We are watching history at work and we are all too small to see exactly what's going on and where the tide is taking us. It's easy to get angry about it, but it doesn't actually help.
There are many things to be said about Trump's personality, his divisive style of leadership and the polarising effect he's had on political discourse. It is profoundly depressing to see the state of affairs America has got itself in to and to watch the Republican Party sell itself out. The situation with immigration on the southern border is distressing to hear people talk about and does have echoes of darker times.
But that is all scenery for the main event which, for me, is the anti-environmental policies. I'm a Brit, so American politics shouldn't really be important to me as we are separated by the Atlantic Ocean. But as America is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases and is basically refusing to end its oil addiction, it will continue to contribute to climate change and everyone will suffer.
To pick out one issue, the consequences of the US withdrawal from the Paris agreement is going to far outlast his presidency and will probably become infamous to future generations. The agreement was not "good" and wasn't a silver bullet that was going to deal with the whole problem, but what was already a very serious and bad situation in 2015/2016, is now far worse and it will have a profound, negative impacts within my life time. It's going to be an uphill battle to prevent catastrophic climate change within the 10-15 years we have left and the current toxicity is going to make that nearly impossible to get anything done through a divided and polarised congress (with both an ineffective Democratic Party and an obstructionist, militant, Republican Party).
I might just about be able to bare the Trump administration if I thought it was going to be an aberration. But by failing to address climate change, its likely to establish a "new normal" for a few decades until we eventually feel the full impacts of the environmental damage. Then... I don't know. It gets darker each time I think about it, and sometimes I can handle it, other times I don't handle it so well. It forces you to re-evaluate things in a way I never imagined was possible or necessary.
It's not just him, there's Moscow Mitch and much of the Republican Party. But to answer the question:
Lies. Lack of honor. Self-obsession. Sociopath. Lack of empathy. Hypocrisy. Incompetence. Failures. Promoting hate and fear. Immorality. Promoting destruction not construction. Liking dictators and hating freedom. Crimes. Bigotry. Trying to drag us down a dark path. Treating women like objects to be grabbed and possessed. Attacking freedom of speech with attempts to have government regulate and control speech. Hating American ideals. Preferring toadies over competent people.
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