Trump is a lot like Reagan in that a lot of his policy choices are time bombs. In forty years, someone's going to be wondering "Jesus, why is this shit so dysfunctional? Oh, it's Reagan Trump. Of course it's Reagan Trump, it's always Reagan Trump."

It would take decades to undo all the damage from Trump’s tenure, some of it may even be irreversible. It’s mind-boggling that anybody who lived through four years of that could want to vote for four more years.

Nothing particularly bad happened, to them

Damage isn't obvious. A lot of it is:

• Declining/damaged trust from allies and such.

• Financial decisions that don't cause massive disruption but start to move things in the opposite direction from progress and toward greater wealth inequality.

• General degradation of norms and values that our countries and allies rely on

• Don't get me started on national security issues with how easy it was to get in Trumps ear by sitting at mar a Lago, spending a bunch of $ at his properties, meetings where translator notes were destroyed, stolen documents...

• all the intelligence assets/ways&means burned because of the document handling and other stuff

All of this together makes it a lot easier for enemies to manipulate the populace and eventually cause some large scale disruption which would be probably under the opposing party (democrats) to continue to encourage trumpism and the politics that got us there.

Lastly, if you didn't suffer from anything negative from Trumps presidency, you're lucky or ignorant. Chances are it's affecting you in ways you either don't know/understand or don't care about. Essentially all trump did for the white working man is give them a warm fuzzy feeling inside

I was once of those federal employees impacted by the government shutdown that lasted almost two months. I illegally collected unemployment just to make sure I had for to eat. All because of a stupid fucking border wall that never even got built. I paid the unemployment back and faced no repercussions but the fact that I had to break the law because of his stupid ego is insane. I have a kid now I don't know what I'll do.

Sometimes I think my memory is bad and getting worse, but hey at least I can remember an attempted coup 3.5 years ago

Yeah, I can’t remember anything bad that happened in 2020.

"No we are definitely real communists not right wing trolls"

They aren't even trying to hide it anymore.

But don't you see, you literally cannot tell the difference. Muh both sides. The Repubs do a bunch of horrible shit, yes. But if you look at the Dems, well, the Repubs are also doing a lot of horrible shit while the Dems have control of no branches other than the executive. That's the Dem's fault. Therefore we must conclude that muh both sides.

I wouldn't call Project 2025 "more standard American bullshit". It's a plan for how to turn America into a fully fascist country within one presidential term.

The US is already a fully fascist country.

Ahh, leftism-doomerism. No one quite so right wing.

How is this not downvoted into oblivion - I know it's a link to that instance, but still.