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    “Technically, the United States didn’t get bad, it’s always been bad! It only got worse!” isn’t the flex a lot of leftists think it is.

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      The point is it isn’t really worse. Yet, anyway. He’s only been president for a few weeks so obviously it can get worse.

      But right now, Trump is about as bad as every other president. Bad in different ways, of course, but they all belong in prison.

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        I disagree. No president has ever abandoned a democratic ally to invasion by an imperialist dictator for such petty, malicious reasons.

        They might all belong in prison, but that’s like saying a shoplifter is just as bad as a serial killer.

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          No president has ever abandoned a democratic ally to invasion by an imperialist dictator for such petty, malicious reasons.

          Well now hold on, we did that to the Kurds in… Wait, nevermind, that was also Trump.

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          The only reason Trump has this opportunity to screw over Ukraine is because Biden kept the war going. The previous administration pressured Ukraine to keep the war going instead of entering negotiations over territory back when Russia was in a much worse position than it is now.

          The reason? At the time it appeared that the war was an opportunity to weaken Russia and let them to waste blood and treasure on an unwinnable quagmire.

          Years later all they accomplished was killing more Ukrainians and Russia is stronger than ever. Biden got Ukraine here, even if Trump is the one to finish them off.

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            The only reason Trump has this opportunity to screw over Ukraine is because Biden kept the war going.

            Some DARVO shit right here.

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      What’s wrong with the message “We should be doing better, not worse”?

      Seems preferable to the “hurt people who also want the things I have” that seems the core of conservatism.

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        What’s wrong with it is it’s normalizing Donald Trump. Like, actually pointing at Trump and saying “this is normal.” US democracy is on life support, and calling this business-as-usual is like telling people there’s nothing to see here while he yanks and tugs on the plug.

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          I’m not sure I understand.

          Saying “We can do better than Trump/Fascism/Corruption/Kleptocracy” seems far from normalising the current state?

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            Saying we can do better than trump/fascism is not what the OP is implying. The op is implying what were are doing now is the same as what we have done before. We can acknowledge that we’ve done bad before, but now it’s for sure way worse. I agree with Bernie that now is way worse than before