from COVID-19 or being evicted from their homes
I think that connection didn't happen because deep down they correctly identify that those 2 would happen with or without Trump.
Yup, and the proof of this is bore out in the democratic response. Ie: "open the healthcare exchanges! Medicare for what now?". "No one should ever have to face eviction....without a lawyer!"
They're the goddamn opposition party and they can't even bring themselves to do lipservice.
i was hyped on the russia-gate train for a bit, but im proud to say i gave up on it probably 2-3 months before his presidency and was shocked to find people actually hoping for mueller's testimony to actually do anything.
A billion scandals didn't sink him during the election, so I never thought more of the same would stop him once he was in office.
The biggest points I thought he'd be stopped were just before Super Tuesday where I thought the Republicans would get their shit together and just run one candidate against him, and during the debates with Clinton was generally doing okay and it hadn't come out yet that she wasn't actually campaigning in Wisconsin.
I really thought that the Mueller probe was actually going to go somewhere. I guess it kinda did, since Stone, Manafort, Flynn, Cohen, Gates, etc. got convicted of various crimes (with some really fucking tepid sentencing), but then the Dems blew their fucking load on the Hunter Biden/Ukraine shit, and that was it. No RICO fraud/racketeering case, not even fucking tax returns in CE 2020. They were never serious about this shit, because they're a bunch of milquetoast, Sorkin-brained, controlled opposition. They only care about punching left, because Dang Cheeto is good for fundraising.
On a tangential note, there was a time where I was really into r/trumpgret and thought that these people who voted for him but now hate him truly had a change of heart and became allies to our cause, and I was so excited to see the tides turning, even though it was just an insignificant percentage of the people who voted for him. But then at some point I realized most of the Trumpgretters are either standard conservatives who are simply upset that he doesn't exhibit the decorum they believe the office of POTUS deserves, or they're even further right fascists who were expecting him to do something crazy like deploy literal death squads to execute all Mexican/Black/Muslim/LGBT/unhoused/etc people, or abolish taxes completely, or fire everyone in federal government to "drain the swamp". Obviously both groups are still going to vote for him since to them he's the lesser of two evils.
when i was 9 and i saw him in that die hard movie where mkculy kulkan asked him for directions, i just assumed he was gonna be a bad guy and get turned into a skeleton by a lightbulb or something i didnt know he was MY president
The burst of outrage and attention at the conditions of migrant children and adults in cages suffering in dilapidated, cruel, and inhumane living conditions for non-crimes of seeking asylum.
Then I understood what sort of society this is and realized they really are above the law.
Honestly I thought there was no way the GOP would let him have the nomination after he criticized the Iraq War
If Trump wins in 2020, they may be a reshuffle of conservatives. 'Sensible' conservatives disliked by libs and cons both like Bush, Romney and Cheney may be vilified as hard as regular dissenters.
When he fired Comey
After that though I became a communist and stopped caring about anything related to Russiagate
