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/dIO__OIb 15h ago edited 5h 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 15h 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/GoodIdea321 America 14h ago

Sounds like it's a good time for them to switch parties, and switch how they vote.

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u/blorbschploble 14h ago

I too believe in fairy tales. I am not making fun of you. I just don't think these fools have spines or principles, or even a decent sense of self preservation (in terms of money and power)

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u/GoodIdea321 America 14h ago

If you were making fun of me, that's fine. I prefer to look at the opportunity they absolutely have, rather than what they'll do with it.

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u/GroundbreakingRun186 11h ago

Maybe I’m optimistic. But I would think for someone who is fiscally conservative and socially closer to libertarian than maga, self preservation would be flipping to become a moderate democrat.

I feel like the dems are inching to the left and the right is sprinting to the right. Lots of people on the right (especially in red states) could probably go for a DINO (dem in name only) that is actually fiscally conservative and has a live and let live social policy philosophy.

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u/robertscoff 11h ago

It’s more basic than that. For these people, policies don’t matter, it’s just tribal. I have family in the US, and for them it’s “my party right or wrong”- instead of having a favourite football team, they have a favourite political team ;(