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/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/Alex5173 1d ago

The old Republican guard allowed this by chickening out, stepping aside, and retiring. They had the opportunity to carve out the rot and chose to leave it behind them to fester.

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u/Rasikko Georgia 1d ago

I can feel you calling out Mitt Romney so hard there, that's exactly what he did lol. Then afterwards he talks trash about how things are and like bruh, no one cares what you say now because you bailed.

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u/Alex5173 1d ago

Mitt is definitely one of the more popular offenders but I remember sometime after Biden was elected there was a long string of old guard Republicans speaking out against Trump and MAGA called them all RINOs. I don't remember any specific names but it seemed like every couple days there was a new one and this went on for months. I'm sure by the time I stopped hearing about it at least 100 Republicans had been canceled by their own constituents.

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u/Uiluj 23h ago

Yeah trump was just so much more popular than any local Republican congress person. If you didn't bend the knee, Trump would just support the person running against you and shit talk you on social media, and then your political career was over.