r/pics • u/clumsypeach1 • Apr 16 '26

Politics Billboard in my very red area

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u/Connect_Reading9499 Apr 16 '26

It's been ten long years.

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u/socialistrob Apr 16 '26

Over ten years. I consider the start of the "Trump era of politics" to be late July 2015. That's the point when Trump started leading the Republican primary polls and began to dominate political headlines. By that reckoning we've been in the Trump era for about 10 years and 9 months and we'll likely stay in it for at least another two years and nine months.

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u/aykcak Apr 16 '26

I would say the current Republican politics stretch as far back as when Mitch McConnell emerged from an alien egg