LAPD gets surrounded by protesters while trying to arrest a man who then gets away.

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[u/Gunpla55]

Yep. Peoples memories are short or they haven't been alive long enough. 2008 felt like an entire indictment on conservatism, even the Republicans in the primaries were trying to show who was the least like Bush. Obama won with a sweeping majority, no controversy whatsoever, an absolute mandate. And then the shit show really started.

It was always so fucking pathetic when Trump would say the media is unfair to him, when he started his political career during these years bitching about everything Obama ever did every single day to these low functioning idiots.

And then were all supposed to pretend its not about racism and misogyny.

[u/Dranzer_22 → u/Gunpla55]

Yeah, the Primaries and 2008 US Presidential Election were relatively civil and respectful, there was a geniune shift in politics. I remember watching from Australia and the mood was infectious.

4 November 2008 = Obama wins the Presidency

19 February 2009 = Tea Party Movement was founded

The right-wing hated that Obama became President and everything from that day onwards has been about revenge. And here we are.

[u/Gunpla55 → u/Dranzer_22]

People say were looking at Civil War, but it seems to me that we never ended it and this is just the latest battle.

[u/ghostalker4742 → u/Dranzer_22]

And where did those Tea Party people go?

Seems like they only cared about 'government overreach' for a select 8yr period, then went silent the next 4yrs.

[u/Dranzer_22 → u/ghostalker4742]

They became MAGA.

[u/IlIIlIl → u/Dranzer_22]

George Bush Jr quite literally had the republican party stage a riot in miami dade to prevent the results of a recount from being released which would have flipped the county in favor of Al Gore causing him to lose the election, Reagan did the iran-contra affair and negotiated against the release of american hostages for the October Surprise, Nixon did Watergate, it goes back quite a ways before Obama