Edit: new and improved image, now with 100% less support! Used my expert photo editing skills to change "supporting" to say "voting for"
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>Downvote me if you, but I still don’t understand what was so terrible about Trump. No new wars, cheap gas, cheap groceries, good economy, literally the worst thing I can recall from those years was reading in the news every day trying to explain why Trump was literally the worst thing that had ever happened to America.
since the mid 2010s fascism has been marching across the world. golden dawn (the grecian fascists) had even set up a remote office in chicago. le pen almost won in france. AfD won seats in germany. and in america, protectionist, anti-immigrant rhetoric made our neo-nazis think that trump is their guy. literally. they called him "our guy".
the traditionalist workers party marched in california, and knifed the high schoolers who showed up to resist them. people knew richard spencer's name. they embraced the "deplorable" moniker. and their guy was getting more news coverage than practically all other "news" events combined. there seemed to be no repercussions for the street violence from the right.
trump's xenophobia made many believe he was literally hitler. his first moves in office, like the muslim travel ban, only heightened this sense. the orwellian phrases "fake news" and "alternative facts" also served to compound the sense that things were very wrong.
but in the 3 years that followed, i have to admit that his rhetoric sucked but his actual actions in office were pretty benign. his judicial appointments were fucking dystopian, but not unexpected for any other republican like cruz or rubio. his executive appointments (like department of education) were likewise awful-but-expected.
i still won't vote for him. but i didn't vote for biden, and i won't be doing that this year either unless there are some significant moves from biden that i don't believe are reasonable to expect.
to be fair, those chucklefucks also do this to ryan gosling, but I like ryan gosling. point, i suppose, is that believing the opposite of fascists is probably a good heuristic, but it isn't really a great like, reliable fact. see: the milk gallon psyop, or the OK symbol psyop.