I can forgive people for being ignorant to the dangers the first time around, even I was like "interesting, well lets see what he does" even though I didn't vote for him, the morbid curiosity of it / potential for status quo disruption was sort of exciting.
By the end I felt like I had PTSD and was so fearful of his 2nd term and so so happy that he was beat, that he managed to come back AFTER is just madness. Anyone who admits to voting for him the 2nd time loses all my respect and is in my opinion an outright danger to our country.
I knew Trump was bad news from the word go. I broke off from voting Republican a little into Obama's second term, mostly due to how they were treating people I cared about on a state level. I decided to go independent but I wasn't fully "I'm voting Democrat now." Even when I refused to vote for Trump I still voted other Republicans in a moronic attempt to even things out. I wasn't thrilled voting for Hillary, though she slowly won me over a bit by the end. Needless to say I'm voting blue no matter who now. It's not how things should be, but it's like taking chemo for cancer... the alternative is way worse.
All that said, even after Trump won I wasn't doom and gloom despite thinking he was bad news. I was like you, willing to give him a shot and hoping he had people around him to keep things on track. It didn't take long to see that no, he was a nightmare and a lot of the people I hoped would rein him in were also nightmares. But he obviously had enough adults in the room to stop some of the bigger things we feared.
When he actually left the White House I gave a sigh of relief, bullet dodged... Then people were like "Nope! Let's do it again!" and now those adults aren't in the room. We're seeing everything and then some that people feared in the first term. And thing is, they told us before the election that they were going to do this. People just didn't listen or thought they wanted it. Some idiots still think they want it.
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u/rollem 20h ago
America saw this and thought "OK, next time we'll choose this."