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.

Dec 6, 2020 · 7:09 AM UTC

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Please don't fall for this image rehabilitation BS
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I don’t think it’s about rehabilitation and I don’t think it’s BS.
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Very insightful. Shakespearean and Machiavellian in it’s dimensions the tragedies and lost opportunities of Trump. Is he haunted by the ghost of Richard II or Macbeth.
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Yessss...human tragedy is who he is personified
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Have you ever considered the fact that you get the Trump you pay for. Here's some money can you say this? Sure. That's the real tragedy. The American dream is a concept beyond the capacity of human discipline.
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King Lear incarnate
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Had he agreed to another round of stimulus he could have won. I have my suspicions that he lost the unemployed vote. At one point he said stimulus is dead on arrival. He may have been talking about his re-election
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All rich bastards are human tragedies. Their existence is structural violence. That is now the progressive thought pattern. Any other view is obsolete and lacks empathy for the slaves who make others rich. Not to mention the planet's health.
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He’s definitely deficient, but I don’t pity him or waste time feeling sorry for him. He’s abusive and triggering. He threatens everyone’s safety with his existence in every way possible. On purpose. I’m glad to be rid of him.
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