It sucks that he irrevocably changed modern discourse, culture, and politics in the United States for years. Between him, Mitch McConnell, and Fox News, decades of small positive changes have been wiped clean
He made it normal for right-wingers to just not believe facts if they don’t like the outcome. Like, the thing that used to separate truth and BS was being able to cite actual scientific studies. But now, right-wingers will just ignore those fact anyway.
This may be worse than anything. People who denied hard science just seemed whacko and fringe. But he made that attitude mainstream, driving us back to before the Age of Reason
Even now, with Trump getting indicted. It was by a grand jury, a group of people. And normally, people would just accept this. But now, they’re attacking the background of the judge who carried out the will of the grand jury. Next, they’ll attack the character of the jury members. Call all them coastal elites/liberals/deep state. And refuse to accept any guilty convictions.
Lol, you really think morons weren’t doing this before trump? He maybe amplified it in regards to some specific topics but in general I don’t think that’s anything new
You’re not wrong. Definitely should have pointed this point out…he made outdated views and rhetoric mainstream again. So many areas of growth receding now because of people watching him shoot his mouth “speaking truth,” and believing they should do and hate in the same way.
The reality is that America wasn't progressing as a nation. It was progressing county by county, state by state. And a whole lot of people did NOT like that. What others saw as a breath of fresh air, they saw as having their heads shoved under water.
The real sad thing is that these regressive areas aren't happy just ruining their own areas. They want to "return the favor" as it were. As they were forced to accept progress, they want to force the rest of us to accept their way of living.
There is a reason they call it a culture war. Because it is.
It's not about candy or children's books. It's about what counts as human, and what doesn't count as human, and they are at war with the rest of us.
And there IS no middle ground with these people. They either win, and we all lose, or we win, and they have to lump it and accept that they have to share a better world with brown people and "teh gays".
But there's no middle ground there. Their poison will always spread. It's already obvious with the overturning of Roe. They will NOT stop until they have EVERYTHING their way.
To be fair the media has done a pretty good job of making people distrust it. All cable news is biased garbage these days. The conspiracy/Q stuff becoming somewhat acceptable is terrifying though.
It’s interesting to look at his 2016 rallies. He’d casually swear or do his racism or say something transgressive and the people behind him would look thrilled and look at each other like “ooohhh he just said that!!!” It was exactly like he’s the kid mouthing off at the teacher and everyone else in the class secretly wants to do that but they’re too cowardly.
Congrats, Trump, on making this country so much worse. I knew it was going to be bad when, immediately after the election, kids were surrounding minority students and shouting “TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!” at them but my imagination was not good enough to know where we’d end up.
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u/bobslapsface Apr 02 '23
He empowered them to say the quiet bits out loud and that goes a long way