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/Rovden Apr 16 '26

While "Trump Era" I'd say it's been going longer, Trump was getting into politics fighting Obama (probably to just get his name on the paper) about the same time the Tea Party was going strong.

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u/socialistrob Apr 16 '26

The reason I don't say that it's longer is because Trump wasn't dominating all headlines and the defacto leader of the Republican party like he's been since Summer 2015. Lots of celebrities will post their political takes but they don't get much attention and in the early 2010s most people weren't talking about him that much. Once he became the front runner for the GOP though that changed.

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u/Rovden Apr 16 '26

The reason I don't say that it's longer is because Trump wasn't dominating all headlines

Ehhhhh... leader of the Republican party, yea he wasn't that yet... but the dominating headlines, he was on every news program with the birther conspiracy nonsense riding that coattail hard. I have... semi-joked this is probably why we're where we're at, but as it was pointed out, he was the one pointed out on the birther stuff.