re: #360 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

It’s just. You knew he was ignorant. You knew he was corrupt. You knew he was vindictive. You knew he was unqualified. But when you actually experience it as we all have, it just can’t simply be described. I totally expect when I’m older, I will have people ask me about what the Trump presidency was like and I’m going to be like you had to live it to believe it. I just hope that the Presidency can have dignity to it restored after this. I don’t want to sound all high and mighty about the Presidency, a flawed institution before Trump but the President of the United States is supposed to mean something. And this clown. Yeah I gladly have gone out of my way to tell everyone I meet from another country who asks me if I voted for him to tell them not just no but hell no.

I think Trump is the culmination of two specific attitudes toward government and the presidency promoted by Republicans (and too many Democrats). The government should be run like a business and the idea that the president has to be someone you’d grab a beer with.