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/Perpetually_isolated 1d ago

What?

There have been plenty of old white Republican presidents. This shit would never fly.

This is a trump/cult problem. Not a race thing.

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u/Spa_5_Fitness_Camp 1d ago

I think it would. There hasn't been a non-trump GOP president for 16 years. The GOP has devolved immensely in that time. Compare the 2008 primary candidates to post-2016. They never would have allowed MTG or Boebert to remain in, or even reach congress in the past, but now it's embraced. Trump is just the first figurehead of this new party, but they would be pulling this same shit with a different one. They've been planning it since the 80s, and he was not part of the plan - they intended to use whoever was the available when the time came.

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u/Hawkeye77th 1d ago

Could you imagine J.D. running and Trump the VP in the next election.

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u/Spa_5_Fitness_Camp 1d ago

They can do whatever they want, they don't' plan to have legitimate elections.