• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Nobody thought he could win in 2016 and everybody thought that our system of government was too well designed and had too many guardrails to let Trump do that much harm

    The voters learned their lesson, but the Democratic partyā€™s establishment isnā€™t nearly as pragmatic

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      Nobody thought he could win except all the people screaming about how bad it was that Clinton was running on keeping the status quo (when so many were clamoring for change) and how she was too arrogant to campaign in key states. Plenty knew that Clinton was fucking up, but Clinton and her fans were too far up their own asses to realize it and now they say things like ā€œnobody couldā€™ve known!ā€ and ā€œClinton was right that Trump is a bad guy!!ā€

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        Clintonā€™s fans didnā€™t care. They planned on blaming her critics if their second choice won.

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      everybody thought that our system of government was too well designed and had too many guardrails to let Trump do that much harm

      It used to. Then bush and Obama spent 16 years executive ordering themselves unprecedented new powers which surprisingly enough didnā€™t just vanish into thin air when their terms were over. And not Biden nor the legislature nor the courts have done squat to dial it back.