• Perdendosi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    than any other citizen

    Hmmm. That’d be a really fun point to argue.

    George W. and Cheney for lying about WMD to get us into a war that cost billions (was it a trillion?) of dollars and tens of thousands of American lives?

    Clinton for welfare “reform” and NAFTA, which made working class and poor people considerably less well off (though maybe that was inevitable)?

    Nixon for lying and turning the presidency from an institution of relative trust to an institution of relative contempt?

    LBJ for Vietnam?

    Robert E. Lee and Jeff Davis for, you know, actually being traitors?

    Trump’s thirst for power is awful, and our country is much worse off. The question is whether he did the damage, or whether he just allowed the damage to escape from the shadows, or whether that makes a difference.