The lazy revisionism is really peak liberal punditry here. He saw people make arguments that Trump is a symptom and not an aberration, i.e. "Bush killed a million people", and transformed it into people of 2016 saying that meant Trump isn't bad. Really shabby lying here from a professional liar.
Like I get we need allies in this fight against fascism but come on dude. I didn’t really see anyone ‘downplaying’ Trump’s threat in ‘16 but there’s been years of republican capitulation to him and he’s only recently been emboldened to take an extralegal approach to presidential authority.
The one thing he is right about is that there area shitload of people who should know better yet who even to this day insist that Bush was worse than Trump.
I used to think what Will thought but I think what it actually is is social media priming you for fights: if you were vaguely in the Hillary camp, you really DID see people saying weird shit about Trump being better. But it’s not “the left.”
I just feel like I expect a dude who ran for office to be able to understand what cherry picking crazy sounding people for the sake of propaganda against groups looks like.
I remember getting shit from liberals for pointing out how Bush's kill count was still higher than Trump's even with COVID (that's not true anymore, but it was at the time). Though to be fair, these liberals were also the same people who had spent 2016 - 2020 trying to give Bush a redemption arc.
at the end of trump's first term people were rightfully pointing out that george w bush was still an actual war criminal.
on the other hand, i was told i was disrespectful to holocaust victims for calling him a fascist when he first did the muslim ban.
The main thing distinguishing Trump from other Republicans is that he has a cult (which DOES make him more dangerous, to be fair) but his policies are pretty standard republican evil
Not to mention Dems and libs all thought Hillary would win and blew off and attacked any criticism of her campaign, even as Trump was pulling in huge crowds in the "blue wall" states.
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on the other hand, i was told i was disrespectful to holocaust victims for calling him a fascist when he first did the muslim ban.
But most of us were like: Hey Harris, stop sucking or you’ll doom us to #FourMoreYears of #MakeAmericaShitAgain