I would point to Jan 6 as a counterexample to your last sentence.
I had friends in Britain who I'd talk with about politics and throughout the Trump term said, well, we didn't get an own goal like Brexit. Although I didn't vote for him, I don't think anything terrible happened in the 1st Trump administration, except Jan 6.
The first time I saw the capitol dome I arrived on the concourse at Reagan Airport and felt something stir in my heart when I saw the capitol dome. In 2022 I took my wife to Washington DC to see the sites around the Mall and it really hurt me to see the front of the Capitol building (such a beautiful thing in itself, as well as a symbol of our institutions) wrapped up in plastic.
I saw Jan 6 live on TV and felt it it was a worse event than Sep 11 as it came from an enemy within. That Trump could be behind that and not be stopped from gaining power again by the courts, the party mechanism, and the voters, boggles my minds. I listened to The Rush Limbaugh Show the next day (about a week before he passed away from cancer) because I wanted to know what he had to say about it and he was just about as shocked as I was.
I had friends in Britain who I'd talk with about politics and throughout the Trump term said, well, we didn't get an own goal like Brexit. Although I didn't vote for him, I don't think anything terrible happened in the 1st Trump administration, except Jan 6.
The first time I saw the capitol dome I arrived on the concourse at Reagan Airport and felt something stir in my heart when I saw the capitol dome. In 2022 I took my wife to Washington DC to see the sites around the Mall and it really hurt me to see the front of the Capitol building (such a beautiful thing in itself, as well as a symbol of our institutions) wrapped up in plastic.
I saw Jan 6 live on TV and felt it it was a worse event than Sep 11 as it came from an enemy within. That Trump could be behind that and not be stopped from gaining power again by the courts, the party mechanism, and the voters, boggles my minds. I listened to The Rush Limbaugh Show the next day (about a week before he passed away from cancer) because I wanted to know what he had to say about it and he was just about as shocked as I was.
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Other than I largely agree.