1/ I remember interviews of Trump in the 1980s & he wasn’t that bad. He wasn’t someone I would’ve voted for for president but he had a reasonableness about him. He wasn’t horrifying.

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2/ He changed over the years. It was apparently Kushner who convinced him that playing the hate card would get him elected president. I tend to think if he had stayed who he was, he still might have won in 2016 & he’d probably be headed for a second term now.
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3/ For so long – and I know, we still have 40 some odd days to worry about – he was such a malignant presence that all some of us could think about was how to get him out of the WH. Now that his presidency is waning, I think of him less as a danger and more as a human tragedy.
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Yikes...hard to believe!
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He has always been this way, always made my skin crawl.
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He's not horrifying now. He just knows the golden rule of politics: the squeaky(read horrifying) wheel gets the free press coverage. He didn't get himself elected he let msdnc and rnc(fox)news do it for him... but he got himself fired by not keeping his core message.
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Seeing a lot of discussion under this thread. I agree he seems like he’s changed a LOT compared to then. Much more open, friendly back then.
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trump lost the election. is orange man bad the dems only talking point??
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The news media is quite different now too... 🤔
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Comparing 80s Trump to now is like comparing Satan to Lucifer, Hitler to Mussolini. I think it's just that he's so openly racist, fascist, treasonous, misogynistic bat shit crazy today that anything from before this doesn't look as bad.
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How about his role in the central park five case? Both he and his father have a long history of racist discrimination. Is racism reasonable?