Donald is merely the next logical step in the rot of America. He's not doing anything that previous presidents haven't done. He's just not making excuses or trying to generate PR cover for it. The only innovation here is presentation and carelessness.

That people think any of this is new demonstrates just how little people know of their own history in this country.

Joe Biden and his predecessors enthusiastically supported genocide in Gaza by guaranteeing the regular delivery of WMD's. Obama dropped 20,000 tons of bombs just in the last year of his presidency, and was making war in 7 countries simultaneously. (Probably more, 7 is just the number we can confirm.) Bush legalized torture, warrantless wiretapping and tracking (specifically targeting religious minorities), ushered in the era of daily school shootings, and normalized bailouts for his golf buddies on Wall Street. Clinton hollowed out the poor and middle class with his trade policies, cut the social safety net wholesale, made it legal to discriminate against gays, and was fucking interns on the Resolute Desk. Reagan did pretty much any evil thing you can imagine, whether arms dealing with America's enemies or letting AIDS ravage a whole generation of young men for Jesus.

Guys, we elect motherfuckers. It's what we do. The problem here is that every successive president has made things worse and consolidated more and more power in the Executive Branch, to the detriment of all but the 1%, and they basically never roll back the negative policies of their predecessors, instead doubling-down on them or ignoring and allowing them to be normalized.

Twice we almost had real change, with Sanders and Perot, but we were too stupid to vote for it (in Perot's case) and the Dems rigged the primaries (in Sanders' case) and now it's institutionally impossible to get anyone with any intention of changing things fundamentally into the Oval Office.