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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Thinking of Trump as some sort of tragic figure is way to kind. I still think that he's dangerous, since he's still trying to overturn the election results and/or sow discord so that a non-insignificant number of people think that the 2020 election is illegitimate.
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Replying to @LemmyRingtail
Both can be true. Believe me, I think he should be held accountable to the full extent of the law. But even then he’s a tragic figure.

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Replying to @marwilliamson @LemmyRingtail
I’m so glad a powerful voice for the holy spirits side is speaking out for the good Marianne Williamson
Replying to @marwilliamson
I was a child of the '80s/'90s, so I still kinda see Trump as an aspirational figure/someone that poor people think that rich people are like, but ityool 2020, I can't harbor any sympathy for him. His presidency has been monstrous, and that's been entirely been by his design.
Replying to @marwilliamson @LemmyRingtail
I’m worried about how much of the clear negligence of a normal childhood and lack of love and empathy was passed to the kids, and biggest fear is people taking them seriously decades to come just because of who they are. I want the entire family name held accountable and gone
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