I Am Somewhat Relieved and Hopeful [View all]
If you look around the cyber and the internets today you will see one of the major stories is that few people actually showed up for Trumps "End of thr Republic D.C. Celebration 2017". It looks like about 1/8th of what Obama got in 2009 and about 1/3rd as many people as trump was expecting. Combine that with his 37% approval rating and suddenly I feel a sense of relief.
No we arent out of the woods by any means but this experiment of "lets see what happens if a 5 year old tries running the country" might not be as bad as it could have been. Coming into office while being so unpopular will help limit some of the damage he can do. The less people like him the more marginalized he will be and the less willing other people in washington will be to go along with his dumb ideas. Combine that with the fact that he doesnt have a clue how to get things done in the political world will likely mean he is less tyrannical and more paralyzed and isolated.
If there were massive crowds today and his approval rating was even mediocre as opposed to historically awful, i would be extremely worried. Instead I am more dismayed that progress is going to stop for a few years and the government will grind to halt. Sure they will put some terrible laws into place but without a mandate or popular backing, trumps presidency may end up being as impotent as....well...Donald Trump
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