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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
We've just spent four years doing nothing but obsessing over what an absolute travesty the Republican party is, barely spending a day without thinking and talking and being upset about it, re-hashing endlessly the seemingly inexhaustible extremes they're willing to go to and the utter lack of decency and shame they've displayed, and what an absolute horror show it all is... and your conclusion is that "no one bats an eye"?
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But yet after all this Trump barely lost. McConnel is still in charge. Graham is still around. The supreme court got 3 justices via Trump. So maybe 'no one bats an eye' was a bad choice of words. It was more in reference to there being no actual consequences to these actions. How many times Did Steve King of Iowa have to be an absolute jackwagon before anything happened? How bad of a person did Roy Moore have to be to barely lose a special election? How many things did Trump do that would have ended any previous politicians entire career?
Yet, here we have an election where democrats won the presidency, made small gains in the senate, but lost a handful in the house, and we have all this handwringing about the democratic party being too extreme?
73 million people voted for Trump. And this isn't like 2016 where you can say people just didn't like Clinton or were trying to start fresh with an outsider. As you mention, we all know what Trump is. And that's where I am coming from when saying the republican party can do just about whatever they want without consequence.