Yep, it’s how you know which ones are actually dangerous, like Tucker - people wondered why he suddenly got off the train and started criticizing Trump, when it was clear he didn’t stop being a bigoted white supremacist corporatist authoritarian wannabe - he got off the train because he realized it would ruin the goals of his ilk to catch the bumper their dogs bark at with someone like Trump and his people in charge. They needed competence to get his vision executed, and anything this stupid would ruin those chances for decades.

We’ve learned they don’t actually care if they’re convinced of or even hear any rationalizations, detailed plans, excuses, or anything like it - they only care about hurting other people, even the ones they “love”, and not having their own lives inconvenienced or pained. The only thing that made them wince was expensive gas. Most don’t like forever wars, but it’s still acceptable to them if they get to hurt people they don’t like both abroad and at home.

Every election season I assume correctly that the major political communities get inundated if not co-opted by these types of bad faith actors

I think more to the point, he never had repaid anyone ever in his life, did anyone think he actually would now?

Well republicans didn’t stop him as a pretense for privatizing services, he did it because that’s his only move throughout all his life - get his hands on something he didn’t and couldn’t build, make it unstable, worse, dangerous, on the verge of collapse, extract any wealth he can under the guise of rebuilding, self aggrandize while doing that, praising himself as a genius builder, and extort anyone even remotely connected to the project and industry with promises to protect them from the consequences and fallout of his own actions.

The most common work trumps administration has done is proving the government actually wasn’t that inefficient or ineffective after all, that fraud exists but was minuscule and fairly well addressed, that voter fraud is almost non existent and primarily exists in conservative extremist circles, but still in numbers far too low to even register statistically or effectively.

Nah, here in America if you have a fatal disease or become crippled physically and you sit there half the nation will call you lazy for not getting on your feet 18 hours a day to work for slave wages, not even making a dent in your cost of living, not able to even get treated still.

Right, but sociopathic narcissists hate to be reminded or confronted with their failures, shortcomings, missteps

The source has already been posted, but I remember a journalist reporting that she applied to ice and they hired her immediately without doing any background research and after she had responded saying she had recanted her application

Trumps approval rating when he was elected the second time was 47%. Al Gore’s approval rating when he lost the 2000 election was 62%.

Remember when the Supreme Court interfered in the presidential election because of hanging chads and effectively kept Gore from winning, thus leading somehow to the death of Harambe and bringing us to the bad place dimension where everything always gets worse and almost always in the worst way possible?

Yeah.. like you said, history likes to repeat itself.