• GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The fact you guys are still treating Trump as a “one off” is wild.

    To the rest of the world that’s the image of Americans, for decades now.

    • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      That is something Americans don’t really understand. Trump has pushed the envelope but he isn’t as much of an outlier as many Americans would like to believe. His incompetence and arrogance make it easy to see how awful he is but his agenda is the regular American agenda with some more guardrails removed. They don’t seem to notice that their Senate, Congress and Supreme Court have mainly supported him with exceedingly little pushback.

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        The biggest difference between Trump and his predecessors is that Trump is not pretending.

        Regan, Bush, Clinton, the other Bush, Obama, Biden, they all bomb whoever they want, kill whoever they want, support Israel’s genocidal policy, interfere in another country elections, … all those bad things that Trump are not hiding.

        For the rest of the world it’s business as usual but this time not behind closed doors.

        To trust Americans was and it is impossible.