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In reply to the discussion: The United States is in a free fall [View all]elocs
(24,486 posts)23. "History will judge them harshly." Let's hope so. If so, I hope that Democrats & those on the Left
will learn to be vigilant and not complacent or overconfident. Ours was a sin of national pride because we didn't believe that what Trump has so quickly done could ever happen here because the Founding Fathers had all the checks & balances and Constitutional protections that would save us. The kind of stuff that is happening now only happens to lesser nations--NOT the United States of America. Until it does and it has.
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tsf couldn't pour piss out of a boot even with the instructions printed on the heel.
rubbersole
May 6
#5
he's gleefully and willfully destroying America. He's an old man with bottomless pit for adulation.
Demovictory9
May 6
#18
That's his genius, it's why they need him, no one else can manipulate the ignorant and uninformed like Trump.
sop
May 6
#26
Here in Florida/Sarasota, my husband tells me the somewhat scary part of what's happened.
chouchou
May 6
#9
Oh yeah...and it's like they're punching more holes in the wooden boat....out in the ocean of society.
chouchou
May 6
#22
Your words are true. Strange how people will choose dinner plates and glasses longer than a President.
chouchou
May 6
#21
"History will judge them harshly." Let's hope so. If so, I hope that Democrats & those on the Left
elocs
May 6
#23