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/irokain75 23h ago

Project 2025 is the product of the "old guard".

Folks...Republicans have always been fascists and bigots and straight up evil. They support abolition out of pragmatism not because they actually gave a shit about black people. They were all in on "America First" in the 1930s which was literal Nazi propaganda and literal Nazi Republicans tried remove FDR from office because they hated the New Deal. When Democrats finally stopped being racist the dixiecrats spent the 1940s-1960s migrating to the Republican party not by chance but because they fucking agreed on hating black people.

And the 1960s is when the events of today were fully set into motion starting with Paul Weyrich. A racist hateful evil man who spent years trying to figure out a way to get evangelicals into the GOP because Republicans were NOT happy with desegregation. They were NOT happy with black people having rights. They were NOT happy with having to play by the rules. Weyrich is the co founder of not only the Heritage Foundation but the arcitech of the religious right and co founded Moral Majority with Jerry Falwell. Weywich created the pro life movement to whip evangelicals up into a frenzy in order to push racist policies and legislation and it worked. Sadly for people like me in the GLBTQ community we ended up a major target of their bullshit. I spent my teenage years trying to grapple with being gay while having to listen to fucking Rush Limbaugh literally celebrate deaths of other gay men on a daily basis during the AIDS/HIV crisis which has done so much damage to me mentally and others in my community. Those of us in the GLBTQ community are quite familier with the "old guard." They were fucking evil. And still are. Because they haven't left. We spent decades screaming our heads off at the coming genocide in the US of the GLBTQ community. Trump and MAGA didn't set this in motion. Nor did they set Project 2025 in motion either. That was all the "old guard" like Weyrich and Falwell.

Americans need to wake the fuck up. We don't have time for this shit. Fascism is here NOW. We need to deal with it NOW.