(November 9, 2016 at 6:58 am)Mathilda Wrote:(November 9, 2016 at 6:51 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: I don't care if he's the best president ever, ever. Most of the damage is already done. His success will encourage all the other populist f*ckwits, all over the world. His campaign alone reduced political discourse to infantile Twitter-squabbles. This will not just go away. This is life imitating reality TV. This is what the f*cking "celebrity culture" brings us.
This is my view. He's demonstrated that demagoguery works. This means that someone far more competent than Trump and so inclined will be far more dangerous. The political landscape has irrevocably shifted now. Maybe there will be a backlash soon enough, or maybe Trump will continue trying to grab more power as he has hinted. We'll know if he starts to clamp down on freedom of the press.
I hope this isn't the end, but again, I have been screaming about the GOP's dangerous rhetoric even before Trump ran. He may not start a war overnight, or topple the government overnight, but be warned, if more politicians employ his tactics it will spell the end of our free society.