Joy Reid began this narrative the day Biden was announced winner by MSM, so it’s coming. In 2 years when they loose the house Michell will be handing out caramels to Trump, and in 4 years they’ll all be like “omg President Bannon is a monster, at least Trump had respect for the office”.
The one thing that will make this harder is Trump not shutting up and going away. He’s going to continue to dispute the results of the election, he’s going to continue to seek out media attention, and he’ll run again in 2024 if he can.
Post-2008 Bush shut up and went away, so people weren’t constantly reminded of how shitty he was.
One actually good thing Biden could do is send a former US president to jail. Pathetic to beg him not to.
Consent doesn’t manufacture itself.
Cant wait for this one to show up in /r/politics
This will be the first thing that disillusions and pisses people off who voted for Biden expecting change.
Liberals will be defending it vehemently cause they are mindless drones that go along with whatever the Democratic party does, but the average people who hated Trump and voted for Biden to get him out, they’re not going to be happy about this one bit.
I asked one of my Lib friends about it, and they’re like, “If Biden pardons Trump, I’ll be pissed.” so yeah
they’ll be pissed… and then normalize it within three days
Yep.
“But if Biden didn’t pardon Trump, then you would have to worry about his base!”
I can hear the piss poor excuses already.
About as much as they dislike Obama for not prosecuting the Bush administration. No change. No hope.
So, I want to preface this by saying I have no more faith in libs not blithely accepting whatever is done about Trump than you do, but I feel there is a significant difference in how 2008 libs viewed Bush (evil but lawful-ish) and Trump (a goon). To me, they are both criminals and I think the lies that got us into the Iraq war are even likely a worse criminal offense than any of the many Trump has committed. But Bush was never seen as a mean-spirited bully and that’s really all libs care about.
Watching the Democrats promise to hold Trump accountable, then helping a democrat unseat a republican incumbent in the midterms, and then watching all of them do nothing at all while pretending to be “resisting” is what set me down the path of radicalization in the first place.
