I would say a big distrust in elections as well emanates from the Democrats attempts to resist steps to ensure the integrity of the vote.I'd say the lasting effect is the ratcheting of extremism. Bush begat Obama, Obama begat Trump, Trump begat Biden. Not just in pushing the audacity of each successive administration. But furthering the effect of pen and phone replacing legislatures.
But that's about it. Biden has erased everything positive Trump had done, and also has brought forth a world no one but bat **** crazy people would rather live in than the one we had.
I think that's a partisan failure of imagination. Would you rather live in the world that was in 2019, or this one?
Now, I tend to agree with you that there was no Kraken. However, Democrats did more to erode faith in the election process than Trump. Democrats and a few Republican defectors worked behind the scenes in 2020, under the guise of covid election mitigation, to relax the rules. An election season rather than an election day gives the purple haired, gender questionable army of harvesters time to get as many ballots as needed to win each district. Mail in ballots and reduce chain of custody, compared to in-person voting.
Trump's post-election shenanigans did not impact public distrust of elections as much as the exaggerated reporting did. It was pathetic. It was never going to work. It speaks to Trump's character that he'd even try it. But it didn't shake any sane person's confidence in elections as much as rules being relaxed that would favor Democrats by a lot.
Why complain about them? Are they any less ideological than Biden's pick? That's not a claim of whataboutism. It is a challenge that this is not really what you're complaining about. It's not that you don't want partisans on the bench. It's that you don't want right wing partisans on the bench. You disagree with their rulings while agreeing on the left wing ideologues. Is Sotomayor any less of an ideologue than Trump appointees? Keagan? This is what presidents do now. They nominate ideologues. Complaining about the Trump appointees without acknowledging the ideologues you prefer makes you look partisan rather than discerning.
I don't think you even put any thought into that one. Of course Trump's spending was absurd. Overall the tax breaks were modest and inflation was in check until covid. Biden blew the **** off the lid of inflation with his reckless policies.
Don't you think it makes you sound partisan when you hyperbolize the damage Trump has done while ignoring the damage Democrats have done that is more lasting. Trump's administration was pretty tame other than that we did not have a statesman in the Whitehouse during his term. The dammage Obama, and Biden have done is vast and longlasting in comparison.
You look back to other Republican administrations in the past, and those might seem extreme to you after 8 years of Obama. But Trump's policies did not diverge enough from the policies of most Republicans to justify the hyperbole.
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