Tragically, the president’s second term is already more lawless and more authoritarian than any in US history
In his first 100 days back in office, Donald Trump has made a strong case that his second term will be by far the worst presidential term in US history.
So many of his flood-the-zone actions have been head-spinning and stomach-turning. His administration seems to be powered by ignorance and incoherence, spleen and sycophancy.
Both he and his right-hand man, Elon Musk, with their resentment-fueled desire to disrupt everything, seem intent on pulverizing the foundations of our government, our democracy, our alliances as well as any notions of truth.
And it might still be the term that won’t end.
Did the guardian hire captain obvious or is this freelance work he’s doing?
Yup i came here to say this, the treasonist traitor wants a 3rd term…
Might also be the last presidential term ever.
Oh come on now, you’re not even going to give his third term a chance? I got $10 says it’s worse.
$10 is what one egg will cost by the end of this.
Probably half by then.
Sure we had second breakfast, but what about elevenes. Lunch. Tea, dinner. Supper?
I don’t think they know about third term Pip
How old do you expect bigmacdonald to get?
Well his doctor did say he could possibly live to be 200.
“I told the President that if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years he might live to be 200 years old”
Palantir feverishly working on his life sustaining Palpatine chair to float him around as Peter Thiel screams at some intern for being unable to procure kyber crystals
What about his 4th?
Low energy!
We need to DEPORT The Guardian for Publishing this!
-Americans who FERVENTLY DEFEND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHOOTERS because of the Constitution!
James Buchanan has set the bare extraordinarily high. To date, Trump still hasn’t even topped Hoover.
This isn’t in any way a defense of Trump, but modern Americans have this idea in their heads that every President in history was somewhere on spectrum of Bill Clinton and George Bush. The bitter truth is that the pre-FDR presidencies were so much fucking worse. Trump is right in line with your Andrew Johnsons and Zachary Taylors and Warren G. Hardings and Benjamin Harrisons. He is not exceptional in his awfulness. He is a reversion to the historical mean.
There’s a difference between the three presidents.
Hoover was sadly trapped into an economic and political thinking that wasn’t suited for the Great Depression. He tried to help the country, but the help was largely ineffectual or harmful. FDR’s administration approached the Great Depression from a radically different point of view.
Buchanan was laughably incompetent, which was the style of the time for presidents before Lincoln. Buchanan didn’t respond to active rebellion because he didn’t think he could.
Trump is actively malicious. He is allowing for the gutting of civilian government under his watch while trying to shift taxation to a system he can control to bypass Congress. Not even Andrew Jackson was that brazen.
Hoover was sadly trapped into an economic and political thinking that wasn’t suited for the Great Depression.
Hoover was a fascist to his bones and an egotistical maniac. He unleashed the military on strikers and labor organizers including the Bonus Army, imposed some of the most draconian immigration regulations of the era, and aided the Axis Powers in rebuilding and rearming with the help of his friends in the Bush family.
Far from trying to help, Hoover’s immediate legacy was a rapid consolidation of wealth into the hands of Republican allied industries and agricultural magnets. The vicious economic squeeze ultimately lead to a surge of unemployment and a collapse in Republican popular support, humiliating Hoover in the midst of his demand for greater private philanthropy.
But this was in pursuit of corporate oligopoly. The efforts failed because the lumpen proles could no longer tolerate their collective immiseration. Not because Hoover lacked ambition.
Buchanan was laughably incompetent, which was the style of the time for presidents before Lincoln. Buchanan didn’t respond to active rebellion because he didn’t think he could.
Buchanan cultivated a Democratic Party of insurrection and normalized the bloody suppression of abolitionists. He did respond the active rebellion. John Brown’s rebellion. And Harriet Tubman’s rebellion.
But, like the Southern secessionists who would follow him, he underestimated the passion and the sincerity of their revolutionary convictions.
worse than the 3rd?
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Those who voted for Harris knew this early into his first regime. Those who voted against her (not voting is still voting) are the fucking ghouls who should get the grand prize of a all expenses paid ticket to El Salvador’ CECOT resort for their well-earned permanent residence.
Big if true
If? My man, you might want to find a news summary of the first 100 days.
