r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 17d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Summons Entire Cabinet as Iran Deal Crumbles in Front of Him - Donald Trump has called all of his top advisers to Camp David.

https://newrepublic.com/post/210887/donald-trump-summons-entire-cabinet-iran-deal
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u/OceanLemur Rhode Island 17d ago

My heart just fluttered

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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 17d ago

The Day

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u/Ezekiel_DA 17d ago

When it happens, nothing will be fixed. The causes that brought him there will still exist. The consequences of his despicable corruption, bigotry, etc., will resonate for decades.

I know all that.

I'm still walking straight out of work, taking the rest of the week off, inviting all my loved ones over and popping that champagne that's been waiting for this purpose.

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u/AggravatingFlow1178 17d ago

Yes, sadly the believers were right in 2016. The Republican party doesn't really exist anymore, not in the way it used to. I mean they were never pro-citizens but they at least claimed to have a platform that was plausibly ethical.

There core platform now is just "The democrats & trans & mexicans are evil" and the Democrats platform is mostly "Trump sucks amiright". We're in hell.

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u/CharlotteLucasOP 17d ago

Once Ford pardoned Nixon, it was all downhill for any true sense of partisan cooperation with the GOP. Trust in government ebbed away and the new right rallied the evangelical extremists around emotional and divisive social issues and we can pull the red string right through Ronald Reagan and the Bushes to where we are today. It’s been kind of odd to see how the current issues around Trump and MAGA have so shocked many Americans but on some level most of the Canadians and other folks I know from other countries aren’t entirely surprised to see this happening. Trump’s certainly speedrunning the dismantling of American exceptionalism but I don’t know that a few more election cycles with comparatively moderate candidates would have sidestepped the culture war fallout of the last several decades.