r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 1d 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/innosins Kentucky 1d ago

He's fucking right. They'd be blowing the damn roof off the place if anyone else was pulling this bullshit.

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u/dIO__OIb 1d ago edited 18h ago

where is the republican congress? they need to be held accountable. this is not just trump, the GOP handed over their power and are silent. The republican party just passed the biggest tax increase in decades and tanked our 401ks. they need to go down. //edit: me bad mobile type

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u/AlphaGoldblum 1d ago

The old Republican guard is dead and gone. Now it's either full loyalty to MAGA or leaving the party altogether.

Some Republicans are grumbling about tariffs, but they know actually doing anything about it will cause the party and Trump to turn on them like sharks smelling blood in the water.

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u/buffa_noles 1d 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 1d 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 23h ago

Don't forget good ole Newt Gingrich