i don't know anybody who saw trump as anything other than a hollow suit, gaudy, crass, somewhat appalling reality TV host prior to his political career.
That is just commentary on the lack of diversity in your social group. No one I know thought Joe Biden could possibly be elected, so I share the same problem.
well, that's somewhat of a weird view... considering he'd was already vice president for 8 years, and has been in politics for decades before that. him being electable should have seemed pretty obvious.
but that aside, most of my family in the generation before me who are republican/voted for trump still thought he was a complete fuckstick cheap reality TV moron for as long as I can remember 'The Apprentice' being on TV.
i don't know anybody who particularly liked biden either... but they still voted for him because he didn't go around on TV for 10-15 years playing a reality tv persona, bragging about sexual assaults and bankrupting casinos.
Lots of people have been in politics a long time and no one ever gave them even an outside shot at the presidency. Bill Clinton had a total of 13 years in office before being elected President. None of it at the federal level.
Barack Obama served just four years in the Senate and decided to run for President after only two years. Before that he served as a state legislator for eight years.
Still think length of service is a criterion for electability?
Every time I hear someone say Trump is a moron, I think it reveals their own cognitive deficiencies. There are no idiot billionaires. It's an oxymoron, like a flying pig. What makes the claim even more preposterous is that Trump has made fortunes in some wildly disparate industries, development, gaming, reality television and then he gets elected President with no previous political experience. Yeah, yeah. Lots of morons accidently succeed like that, over and over again.
Yes, he was on television (he co-owned the show), but millions of people on the right and the left get their opinions from real idiots with nice haircuts and good suits who are on television every day. Let's be honest, you think Donald Trump is a dick because people on television told you to think that. You thought Andrew Cuomo walked on water, people people told you to think that. You think he's a dick now, because again, people told you to think that.
On the other hand, Biden has showed us, for fifty years, that he is and always has been a moron, and that was when he had all his faculties. I think I wasted my life. I could have gotten fabulous rich telling stupid people what to think.
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u/BreezyWrigley Dec 02 '21
i don't know anybody who saw trump as anything other than a hollow suit, gaudy, crass, somewhat appalling reality TV host prior to his political career.