Look I know I look like an asshole kicking someone when they're down, but the trade war shit that destroyed farm country is not a "broken promise", at all It is what he openly and specifically told everyone he was gonna do, multiple timeshttps://twitter.com/byHeatherLong/status/1314603817950998528 …
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And anyone with any shred of expertise or training or experience in trade policy came out and predicted that exactly this would happen People were screaming that his ideas about tariffs and "trade wars" would ruin the country and leave farmers destitute And YOU DIDN'T CARE
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All the big-city smart people started running these insufferable meta thinkpieces about how Trumpism was appealing to populist everyday Americans who felt "ignored" and "left behind" and that when "elitist experts" "talked down" to those people, it just made them like him more
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THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DO THAT And everyone has a part in this -- the big-city smart people running clickbait about how voting for Trump made you some kind of fucking rebel and cool masculine badass most of all
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That's the whole frustrating thing about this, that people treated the election in 2016 like it wasn't REAL, like being President isn't a JOB, like it couldn't have material consequences to have someone doing it who didn't know how to do it Like it was just a cultural event
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That's the death of democracy -- or of any governing system -- when there's no connection between actions and consequences When whoever's making decisions fails to realize this is the real world and not a fucking game you play to signal what team you're on
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Yes, some pilots are straight up assholes, smug elitists who think they're fundamentally better than everyone else and treat other crew and passengers like shit However, they still actually know how to fly the fucking plane It kinda matterspic.twitter.com/HySqaIoOH9
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I'm of the opinion that literally nobody is qualified to be POTUS. But some people are significantly and blatantly LESS qualified than others
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