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I have a friend who is a mega-MAGA. This is a person who’s completely, unwaveringly, 100% pro-Trump. You literally don’t get more MAGA than she. Please believe me when I say that this is a very dedicated, completely serious follower.

We were talking today, and she said without any prompting on my part that the Biden presidency turned out not that bad at all. Nothing horrible is happening. The friend is still completely pro-Trump. But she doesn’t have a problem seeing reality and acknowledging it freely.

It would be fantastic to see the same kind of reasonableness from the other side. I’d love to hear, “I’m against Trump but his presidency was fine. Nothing terrible happened.” Obviously, COVID happened but that happened to everybody on the planet. Trump specifically did nothing particularly bad. And neither has Biden. We can have gripes about either or both but there’s no disaster that they caused.

With that kind of reasonableness, we could all stop wailing at the moon and start getting along better.

8 responses to “Reasonable People”

  1. overgrownhobbit Avatar
    overgrownhobbit

    Well yes. Presidents don’t cause deep sea volcanic eruptions or deadly hurricanes.

    That’s nice.

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  2. Ileana Avatar
    Ileana

    I don’t like Trump either, but from where I live ((France) and never having been to US, he seems to have done some clever stuff in the Middle East and a prison reform that could be even thought of as “progressive ‘.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Oh yes, he did put a lot of violent criminals in the streets. That was supposed to attract black voters but heavily misfired.

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      1. Ileana Avatar
        Ileana

        I guess this could be because those most affected by black criminals are law-abiding, black people.

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  3. kharking Avatar
    kharking

    I am never going to get over the medical discrimination on a personal and public level or the jab mandates. There are other things that are problematic but not horrible but this one is just evil. Nearly everyone in my circle of families faced unemployment of the sole breadwinner or participation in a gigantic experiment for an ineffective and potentially dangerous medical treatment. Maybe Trump would have mandated the shots too, although pushing a state oriented covid response leads me to think that it wouldn’t have been mandated at the federal level, but the Biden administration is the one that actually did it.

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      random reader

      I have to agree with this. Trump is to be blamed for the operation Warpspeed and keeping Fauci around, but his administration was not the one who pushed the mandates. Let’s not forget the mandate to be vaccinated to enter the US if you are not a citizen/permanent resident (thankfully not there anymore), and the mandate for all green card applicants to get the Covid vaccine (which is still in force).

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    2. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      This is everywhere, though. It’s not specifically Biden. It was worse in Canada or Spain. We can just as well give Biden credit for not letting it get nearly as far both with lockdowns and the vaccine as it got in other countries.

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      1. kharking Avatar
        kharking

        Sure. Like Ebola is a worse disease than smallpox so let’s be thankful it wasn’t that.

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