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Spin Zone / Re: The Death Throes of The Never-Trumpers
« on: February 21, 2022, 07:20:49 AM »Nope. I'm blaming Trump for his actions, which enabled the Democrats. It could have been the biggest sweep, but his ego caused him to lose to a senile old man who didn't even really campaign. Trump beat himself, he started losing his reelection the moment he was elected.I think that the thing that happened was that Trump was something that the highly diverse and divided democrats could unite against in hate. From WAY before the election, all the various groups lined up against him. And the RINOs at best did nothing. At worst they were Never Trumps. He didn't enable the democrats, he united them. I don't like his style and cringed every time he put out a tweet. But wow was it fun to watch the Pavlovian reaction from the left as they overreacted to everything he did or said. And he did get the job done that needed doing. The democrats and republicans were all fat and happy going through the motions of appeasing the masses. He put the country back on a path to prosperity for all. Minorities made their greatest gains in income and wealth in generations. He did secure the border the best he could against radical judges. He leveled the playing field with our "trade partners." He made the USA respected again. No new wars and drawdown of the forever wars.
Ultimately it wasn't democrats or republicans, but COVID that brought him down. Despite the massive forces aligned against him, he would have gone down as the most respected and successful president in a long time. But he took the advice of Foochi and did what the "experts" told him was the right thing. And that is why he lost the election. Not because Biden was better, not because of anything he did, but because of a stupid virus.
Now we're seeing the democrats running off in different directions trying to out radical each other. The many different groups are no longer united. Unfortunately the republicans are not united either. They are sitting back and will win not because of anything they are doing, but because they are doing nothing. And they are happy about that. I think it is Wilcow that says "democrats want power, republicans want position."
The first year of Trump was an amazing time for the country. In a good way. No, he didn't hate (no proof of that anywhere), he wasn't xenophobic (no proof of that anywhere), he didn't hate women (no proof of that anywhere, barring some ill-advised locker-room talk that all men do). Yeah, his style was not the style that I would choose for a president. But I'll take that and all he did to improve the country vs the doddering old puppet fool that we have now.