Originally posted by oxmixmuddle
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I haven't done that. Each time a problem associated with a past president has been brought up, I've been quite happy to say 'that was bad'. You seem to be working some false impressions:
A) the fact that some president in the past did something bad and got away with it to some extent big or small means that Trump is excused for doing something similarly bad.
B) it is my responsibility to reference all the times some other president has done something bad before I point out something Trump is doing that is bad.
Both of those are false assumptions pix.
Further, Trump is not 'the worst thing ever' because no other president ever did something similar. The issue with Trump is that he regularly exceeds previous excesses in two ways.
(1) He seems intent on trying to do ALL of them at once.
(2) he adds to it the degradation of the presidency itself, the degradation of relations with our allies, daily new lows in terms of how he lies about his actions and the actions of others. He allies himself with despots. And instead of trying to hide less that honorable actions or intentions, he flaunts them. And that is the short list.
No other president combines so many issues into one person, one presidency. He's like all the bad things in Nixon, Bush, Obama, and Clinton all rolled into one man, with some extra on top for frosting.
A) the fact that some president in the past did something bad and got away with it to some extent big or small means that Trump is excused for doing something similarly bad.
B) it is my responsibility to reference all the times some other president has done something bad before I point out something Trump is doing that is bad.
Both of those are false assumptions pix.
Further, Trump is not 'the worst thing ever' because no other president ever did something similar. The issue with Trump is that he regularly exceeds previous excesses in two ways.
(1) He seems intent on trying to do ALL of them at once.
(2) he adds to it the degradation of the presidency itself, the degradation of relations with our allies, daily new lows in terms of how he lies about his actions and the actions of others. He allies himself with despots. And instead of trying to hide less that honorable actions or intentions, he flaunts them. And that is the short list.
No other president combines so many issues into one person, one presidency. He's like all the bad things in Nixon, Bush, Obama, and Clinton all rolled into one man, with some extra on top for frosting.
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