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Trying to resign myself to the idea of Trump being re-elected ... like I tried to resign myself to him being elected the first time.
I ask "how bad can it be?"
Surely America is strong enough to survive four more years under assault even if the person committing the assault is president. Surely he can't be much worse than he already has been. Right?
But I keep coming back to the fact that the disregard he has shown for laws, ethics, decency and traditional American values has happened when he still needed to be on good enough behavior to get reelected, and when he still had people in his administration who had dedicated their life to serving the country.
He has cleaned house of people who were capable of giving him good advice.
A reelected Trump would be completely untethered.
I ask "how bad can it be?"
Surely America is strong enough to survive four more years under assault even if the person committing the assault is president. Surely he can't be much worse than he already has been. Right?
But I keep coming back to the fact that the disregard he has shown for laws, ethics, decency and traditional American values has happened when he still needed to be on good enough behavior to get reelected, and when he still had people in his administration who had dedicated their life to serving the country.
He has cleaned house of people who were capable of giving him good advice.
A reelected Trump would be completely untethered.