I really think people have forgotten just how bad things were under the Trump Administration. Literally every day there was news about some service being cut or someone terrible appointed somewhere they shouldn't be or what have you. He constantly flirted with WW3 and military dictatorship. It was such a blur of badness that there aren't big standouts for people to point to to make him "the XYZ president." it was everything. all the time. Why do we not remember this.
Remember how everyone learned Zelenskyys name? he wasn't the presiden of Ukraine standing up against a longshot defense against a Russian invasion. He was that guy that Trump tried to extort in order to get blackmail against Joe Biden.
Can anyone name the current secretary of education? I can't. But I can list the shitty things Betsy DeVos did
He was extorting Zelenskyy by threatening aid to Ukraine.
He assassinated an Iranian general. Luckily the Iranians are smarter than him and didn’t start a war over it.
He move the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
He started a trade war with China for no reason.
He was just constantly picking stupid fights with everyone.
Just a ton of stupidity internationally, in addition to heinous domestic policies like trying to deliberately destroy the Postal Service, reversing tons of anti discrimination rules, just axing regulations with no regard what they were for.
And through it all, the President’s latest Tweet was prime time news every single night.
Not only can we not go back to this, that's actually a best case scenario under a second Trump presidency.
Worst case scenario is that he greenlights Project 2025 and we just literally all live in an actual fascist dictatorship.
Hey remember how he antagonized Kim Jong Un?
Also the whole way covid was (not) dealt with at the beginning when it mattered
Like that’s very much a thing that is STILL killing millions of people. The fact it got turned into a political dick-measuring contest. The fact the CDC was gutted and the president would not shut his fucking mouth about how stupid and fake he thought it all was
The genesis of “fake news” being mainstreamed
The mask-off bigotry that’s commonplace from politicians (and others) now that would have TORPEDOED careers before
THE SUPREME FUCKING COURT
Do not tell me that Biden is “just as bad.” Read a fucking history book if you don’t remember the Trump years. Or literally just look around you at all the things he made into our problem to this day
Oh hey, it's me, the person who spent my last year of law school writing white papers and notices and a research paper about just how legally horrible Trump's immigration policies were!
I had to keep up a running updating summary of the fucking Muslim ban and interview Dreamers who were suddenly at risk of deportation, including one guy who told me that he'd seriously contemplated suicide because of the possibility of being deported!
IF YOU THINK BIDEN IS "JUST AS BAD," YOU ARE FORGETTING ALL OF THE PEOPLE TRUMP MANAGED TO HURT IN FOUR YEARS, INCLUDING ON HIS FIRST FUCKING DAY IN OFFICE.
