The person, Donald J Trump, is an historically flawed individual

[kentuck]

One of the most fitting quotes we can find comes from Alexander Hamilton:

"When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits — despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day — It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.'"

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Those Americans that tied their political fortunes to this flawed individual have put into peril the entire experiment of American democracy. They accepted the rhetoric and the lies and inherited the flaws.

[Irish_Dem]

1. The biggest discussion needs to be why the American people elected this kind of man to high office.

That will be the research topic in years to come.

[RAB910]

2. It's not that tricky, you can thank the right-wing propaganda machine

It had primed the weak-minded for someone like Trump

Plus even the MSM played a role by going out of their way to normalize Trump's criminal and abhorrent behavior

[louslobbs]

3. Trump is one of the most defective characters to

have ever walked the earth, and sadly, there are millions of defective people just like him living amongst us, who still want him as their ruler. It’s disturbing to say the least.

[bluesbassman]

4. In the land of deplorables, the abominable shall be King.

Trump at least did us one favor; he pulled back the veneer of civility that shielded the true selves of thirty percent of our population. Forewarned is forearmed moving forward.