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I was of the mind that he was behaving like a defiant and offensive ass on the campaign trail because he recognized that such behavior excited his constituent base, especially as supremacists and extremists began to latch on. I figured he would abandon that nonsense after being elected:
- From encouraging the mindless mob into chants of "lock her up," Trump immediately declared that he isn't interested.
- From Trump's moronic declaration that "NATO is obsolete," he moved to a year later declaring that "NATO is no longer obsolete."
So, perhaps the guy was just savvy enough to leash up the idiocy of the country, created by years of GOP interest groups and FOX News-inspired propaganda, and skip into the White House?
Nope. He went on to prove how his outsider inexperience has left him inept in domestic and international politics; and as the criticism built from all sectors of the political spectrum, he defaulted back to being an ass for his loyalists.
We have been witnesses to his filling of his Cabinet with the swamp that he told his loyalists he would drain, taking credit for ongoing economic trends, de-legitimizing the electoral process, shamelessly and openly feeding the wealthy with ever more riches through our taxes, significantly reducing American influence in virtually every region on the planet, criticizing even our strongest allies while cozying up to dictators and autocrats for "peace," constantly attacking American legal, government, and media institutions of our democracy, the drama of his personal financial, sexual, and criminal investigation scandals. And through all of this his loyalists merely shrug as they encourage Trump to keep lowering the bar of the Office into ever more depreciating standards of acceptance. Much like they did while he was on the campaign trail inciting violence, insulting American POWs, denigrating the handicapped, and labeling political rivals as enemies.
But, considering that Donald Trump was king "birther," what did we actually expect?
Blue:
Well, once he won the election, I did hope, even if not expecting so, that he'd "abandon that nonsense."