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My favorite US president for my lifetime, but he really wasn’t good for America.
He projected confidence and competence, and was a great leader, so he lulled many Americans, and a lot of people around the world, into complacency. For a bit, it felt like the 90s, we were coming back and all was well.
But we aren’t coming back, those days are gone. We have been decaying for a long time, long before Obama took office, decades before. We are rotten to the core.
Trump is a much better representative of what the USA is, he’s not fooling anybody. Well… I mean he’s fooling fools, but they are always fooled, that can’t be helped. It’s obvious what state we are in with him at the helm. He’s the President we created, he’s the President we deserve, Made in the U.S.A.
He also didn’t use the levers of power he had effectively. He was playing gentleman’s rules whilst the real threat to the country (from within) waited for him to get out of the way.
The Supreme Court nominations is the obvious one, but he should have been reinforcing all the checks and balances in the system, possibly even relinquishing powers away from the Office of the President where they have accumulated over 250 years.
Bin Laden wasn’t the threat. His own position was.