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michaelflutist's avatar

You say that, yet he won a plurality after causing hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and causing chaos in his first time, then being convicted of felonies and found liable for sexual assault.

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Toiler On the Sea's avatar

The period of 2016-2020 was stressful for knowledgeable/engaged liberals but for your median American the economy was fine and Trump was more of an entertaining yet annoying carnival act than real threat. That's no longer the case.

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Karlis Streips's avatar

Well, yes, but in large part because he and Faux Noise managed to memory-hole the first term. What's happened now is that those who voted for him because of the belief that he was going to improve the economy (despite the fact that the economy was in great shape already) have realized that nothing could be further from the truth. They're coming after grandma's Social Security with the truly lord-of-the-realm claim that grandma won't notice if she misses a payment, because she'll get it next month. That's not how Social Security works, and the bottom line is that people got cheated. And now the piper is calling the tune.

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