Agree. Much as I despise Trump, he’s not an outlier. American culture of individualism, “freedom” and hyper-partisanship is why it’s so bad there.
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The leadership has actively made things worse several times, but they aren't out here dragging people from their homes, stealing their masks, and forcing them onto planes to go have family reunions.
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No, but GOP "leadership" had been actively downplaying the impact of the pandemic.
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As human beings, we deserve a better government. As people who had a primitive but functional democracy and pissed it away to avoid cognitive dissonance, not so much.
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Insert clip of George Carlin saying: "If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to have selfish, ignorant leaders."
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It's both. Even the part of American culture that chose him could easily have ended up with someone who didn't do all those specific things; most of the world's Trumpish demagogues managed it really badly but not as badly as this.
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It’s not. It’s the result of a minority rule system installed by slaveholders 250 years ago. The American majority rarely gets to have the leaders they vote for.
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