The Mueller Report thread

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(04-22-2019, 05:31 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: The phrase "it gets worse before it gets better" is what we need to think about here. Not only is what has happened/is happening undemocratic and counter to how our government is supposed to function, it means people aren't going to learn from this mistake. They aren't going to fully come to grasp why electing a pompous, inexperienced, habitual liar and cheat to the office of POTUS is as bad as it is. If Trump were allowed to fail as hard as his actions should have caused him to, we may have very well seen a turning point in the type of politicians that went up for office. I fear that we are just going to continue down this same path, though. Continuing the divisive nature of our politics rather than coming together to realize just how spectacularly bad this situation is.

Ha ha, love this. It keeps the "deep state" charge while reversing its tenor.


There may be two problems with allowing presidents to "fail," though.

1) economic/military disaster

2) the people who need to learn from their mistake don't.  The failure just throws up another "Tea Party" angrier and more misguided than before, and more amenable to the next demagogue.  And it may be that the demogogue's learn more from Trump-style failure than voters.