Misinformation drops dramatically after Trump gets banned from Twitter

[TaraJo]

Oh, I'm not saying he was ever a good president.  He wasn't.  He's going to be the reason future generations don't have to debate who the worst president was.

But before 2020, there wasn't covid which he failed to deal with and actually worked against efforts to control.  Honestly, I don't know if I could have handled covid worse if I tried.

2020 was also when race riots started up again and his words and actions only made them worse.  

Screeching about voter fraud for the last two months of 2020 was just the icing on the cake, especially when he lost every single court case he brought forth about it.

You want to know the other scary thing?  Trump, with one simple change, could have turned re-election into a cake walk.  All he had to do was take covid seriously from the start.  Americans tend to rally around their president in times of crisis.  Remember how Dubya had 90% approval ratings right after 9/11?  Trump could have had something like that if he had treated it like an actual crisis.  I suppose his own failure saved us from his future failures.

I agree that the biggest thing to sink Trump was COVID.  All the other awful things would have been set aside by voters if he had made a sincere attempt to get COVID under control.  

The race thing has always been right under the surface.  Trump brought it out in the full light of day.

Yeah, the big difference between Trump and most politicians: they at least attempt to bring people together and not alienate voters.  Trump, on the other hand, identifies the people who are hostile to him, and attack them like nothing else.  He doesn't want to waste time trying to be reconciliatory with anyone.  And that results in invigorating the opposition base against him.  That's why Biden ran as such a moderate: he didn't need to energize his base when Trump did that for him.