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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Please don't fall for this image rehabilitation BS
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Replying to @mudmullingmole
I don’t think it’s about rehabilitation and I don’t think it’s BS.

Dec 6, 2020 · 7:24 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
I totally get seeing him as a human tragedy. But as you said, that doesn’t mean you want anything to do with him, or that he deserves absolution. He doesn’t. But wow, what a horrific, completely unnecessary implosion he created for himself. I get it.
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