r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 16h ago

Soft Paywall Obama Breaks Silence on Trump’s ‘Unimaginable’ Presidency - “Imagine if I had done any of this,” the former two-term president said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-breaks-silence-on-trumps-unimaginable-presidency/
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u/buffa_noles 14h ago

The Old guard weren't any better, they're the ones who laid the cult of personality thing in motion with Reagan and started the shock jock fake news culture with Limbaugh. We are seeing their bullshit iterated on.

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u/AlphaGoldblum 14h ago

Oh, agreed. I'm absolutely not trying to absolve the old guard, they were also a league of singular evil in their own right.

But yeah, even Barry Goldwater saw the inevitable conclusion to what the GOP was doing back then.

“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.”

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u/Polar_Reflection 11h ago

Don't forget good ole Newt Gingrich