We're fortunate that Trump was an incompetent imbecile

[Cyrano]

Imagine an efficient, intelligent person with Trump's narcissism, lack of conscience and hunger for permanent power. Had such a person been president for the past four years, we would now be living in a dictatorship.

However, the Republican Party has many presidential wannabees who fit that description and will be contenders in 2024. Trump and his minions established the blueprint for ignoring the constitution and doing whatever he wanted to do. The Republican Party and millions of MAGAs went along with it.

Right now, our democracy is teetering on the edge of a cliff. If the GOP has their way, they will own us all after the next two elections. They are at all out war with us. And it's past time for us to fight back like our lives depended on it. Because they do.

[Dream Girl]

1. Mike Pompeo would get it right.

He’s a smart, evil fuck. Waiting in the wings as we speak.

[mopinko]

2. cheato was a puppet. there were plenty of brains behind him.

like st ronnie before him, and to a lesser extent, w.

more often than not, it's how these things work. world domination is not a one man job.

[RicROC]

3. and like GWBush before him.

He only tried to be his own man in the last 2 years of his presidency. Who was behind him? Cheney? Koch?

[Cyrano]

4. You're right, however

Trump's uncontrollable impulses drove him to bark out whatever it was he wanted to do at the moment. The puppet masters were probably highly frustrated that he wouldn't stick to their script.

The only one who seems to have had real power over him was Putin. (Possibly because of some videos from a Moscow hotel room?)

[BeyondGeography]

5. That's a major source of his appeal though

Angry fuck-ups identify with an angry fuck-up. Take the relentlessly belligerent lying, boastful, bloated white trash dynamic away and you lose a lot of the, um, romance, aka the desire to crawl over broken glass to vote for the guy.

They trusted him to hate and loved that he was at war with world. He will not be easy to replicate. Fortunately.

[oswaldactedalone]

6. #VoteBlue2022

[In It to Win It]

7. I saw that as a double edged sword

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On one end, he’s a fucking idiot that can do major damage. On the other end, he’s a fucking idiot that has no idea what he’s doing so not much will be accomplished.

The major downside of his idiocy is that he lets other slightly more competent people do the grunt work with little oversight so they are the ones that do the major damage. They’re the ones that take advantage of the idiocy for their own agenda. For example, the “Muslim ban” wasn’t Trump’s idea. A slightly more competent person implemented that and because Trump is an idiot, Trump has no input. Trump’s just happy to be invited.

[moose65]

9. That is correct

Trump was too stupid and had too short of an attention span to do much damage on his own, but the real threat was the people behind the scenes. I am sure that some scary stuff went on behind the scenes.

[Cyrano]

10. It will all come out over the years

People in the future will gasp at the ratfucking that took place over the past four years. (And future MAGAs will yearn for "the good old days.&quot

[samsingh]

8. that's the scary part - had he one once of normalcy in front of the camera

he would have won again, and everything was being stolen from us behind the scenes.

Our Democracy does not seem strong

[UTUSN]

11. K&R