"All the nasty things which Trump has done and is doing, all the horribleness that he stand for, has bipartisan roots going back decades..."
Yes, I agree. I said so, didn't I?
As to not being asked your opinion on the president's executive powers, I agree with that, too. We were never asked! But our elected officials, who are supposed to serve as a check on those powers, certainly didn't do their jobs. I think president Obama should have been impeached for his drone wars. There, I've said it. And yet I do think he was, and is, basically a good man. The buffoon we have in office now is not. Yet he now has these powers. I am hoping that some few of the republicans will remember their humanity enough to oppose him.
And I've got to say, as someone who's socially fairly conservative, I can't understand Trump's base. I can't understand why, after his disastrous first three weeks, he still has a nearly forty percent approval rating. It makes me feel almost desperate. I actually know a couple of Trump voters, and know them to be basically decent people. But they are thoroughly brainwashed. And it terrifies me to see our system of checks and balances, as imperfect as it is, being so eroded.
Anyway, thanks for your comment. I am almost overwhelmed at Trump's awfulness, and I do wish the democrats would look at themselves and see what they did to help bring it about. But I don't see that happening, either.
Oh, well. We've got to get rid of him first. Hopefully that will happen soon. He is already repeatedly in violation of the constitution. He's worse than Nixon, worse than Bush, and up there with Reagan and Iran-Contra. Already, after only three weeks! He's got to go.
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Yes, I agree. I said so, didn't I?
As to not being asked your opinion on the president's executive powers, I agree with that, too. We were never asked! But our elected officials, who are supposed to serve as a check on those powers, certainly didn't do their jobs. I think president Obama should have been impeached for his drone wars. There, I've said it. And yet I do think he was, and is, basically a good man. The buffoon we have in office now is not. Yet he now has these powers. I am hoping that some few of the republicans will remember their humanity enough to oppose him.
And I've got to say, as someone who's socially fairly conservative, I can't understand Trump's base. I can't understand why, after his disastrous first three weeks, he still has a nearly forty percent approval rating. It makes me feel almost desperate. I actually know a couple of Trump voters, and know them to be basically decent people. But they are thoroughly brainwashed. And it terrifies me to see our system of checks and balances, as imperfect as it is, being so eroded.
Anyway, thanks for your comment. I am almost overwhelmed at Trump's awfulness, and I do wish the democrats would look at themselves and see what they did to help bring it about. But I don't see that happening, either.
Oh, well. We've got to get rid of him first. Hopefully that will happen soon. He is already repeatedly in violation of the constitution. He's worse than Nixon, worse than Bush, and up there with Reagan and Iran-Contra. Already, after only three weeks! He's got to go.