This Seems Like A Pointless Exercise

[DLJ]

Only if the match is being played by two teams of Trump, with Trump as the referee, a crowd made up entirely of Trumps and with Trump operating the scoreboard.

But I still maintain that Trump is the best thing that's happened to US politics in decades.

Politics, probably yes. For the US as a decent entity, probably no. The shit he's fronting with his lunatic behavior is the covering of the dismantlement of the US government, which isn't really on screen for most people. I do not agree with the policies reducing Federal oversight of our nation's lands, which will eventually be despoiled by big business if not addressed. The allowing of state's rights on all the civil rights issues is also a monumental step backwards. The appointment of judges has been increased, after a lack thereof, and they will be conservative judges. More's the pity for the civil rights of women and minorities.
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Well of course the policies are abhorrent to anyone who has read any Dickens.

I'm suggesting that it's short term pain for long term gain. The up-side of Trump is that the lid has been lifted on what's been happening since Reagan (perhaps since FDR) of a transition to a plutocratic/oligarchic/kleptocratic monarchy-like system where the donors and their lobby-lackeys are calling the shots.

And the term for a non-hereditary monarchy is of course, tyranny.

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MAGA? Don't make me laugh. What makes the US great is the multi-ethnic mix we get from immigrants. I could go on, but I think that's enough for now.

Dear oh dear. You are making the school-boy error of thinking The United States of America is a community, a collection of free individuals with compassion and loyalty and mercy and justice.

You obviously have forgotten that Murika™ is a brand, a concept, an ideal, to be defended against all competition and threats from outside.

Silly boy.