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by atmavatar
28 days ago
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> "after his term we'll at least return to normalcy and fix things" We'll only return to normalcy after Trump upon implementing our own Nuremburg-style trials for members of his administration and enacting a number of constitutional amendments to fix the structural failures which allowed it to come this far. Even then, it would take at least a generation before the rest of the world will consider treating the US as a sane, good-faith member of the global community. Unfortunately, the chances of either reform occurring are near zero right now. The only way to get enough support for such reforms requires the bulk of the MAGA cult wake from their delirium, which won't happen unless/until things get a lot worse. Loyalists have a pretty large capacity to compartmentalize their dislike of actions taken by Trump separate from their support of Trump the person, even when you can get past the "fake news" mantra that lets them dismiss anything negative which doesn't affect them directly. |
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Absolutely so. Even today a member of the Administration was asked about the $1.8B slush fund and the appropriateness of banning the IRS from auditing not just Trump, but his children and their families (i.e. Kushner, etc.).
The response had the name "Biden" in the first six words out of his mouth. Bear in mind, apropos of anything else the leak of his tax return was during Trump's administration, under Trump's choice of IRS commissioner, from a contractor who worked for a GOP-affiliated company working with the IRS.
But as you say - just say "Biden" and a sadly not-insignificant subset of the population will automatically begin rewiring neural pathways.