• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    19 hours ago

    It’s the “everyone is fine with it” bit that’s the problem. The institutions that are supposed to operate as checks and balances on the ability of the president have simply have failed to do their jobs, and no one’s picking up on their behalf.

    Other Western nations have had their fair share of idiot leaders, but everyone just makes fun of them, including the media, and then eventually their approval ratings drop so low they’re forced to resign, or they kicked out by their own party for the purposes of self-preservation.

    It is often said that Boris Johnson was the UK’s Donald Trump, but not really because other than whatsherface no one liked Boris Johnson, he certainly didn’t have an army of sycophant idiots hanging on his every word. Everyone just laughed at him, constantly called him out on his BS, and eventually his own party turned on him, or risk getting booted out of parliament for an entire generation.

    • Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      It’s true. The people were able to fend off could in S Korea and Brazil.

      But people don’t seem to realize the level of background investigation and psychological exams that someone like a president goes through or has done to them.

      This means that EVERYONE knew what he was and what he was going to do, and…they attack progressives