So, yeah, no one stormed the Capitol. The police opened the door and people calmly walked in

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there will never be another "trump"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_G._Harding

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He appears to me to be a statesman, a political careerist, not a popularist popping out of nowhere with a bunch of promises and a track record or success based on a reality tv show. The corruption is no doubt there as it was in harding's day though but they are better at keeping it hidden now-a-days. I think that is what gave trump his following, the fact that he was already a billionaire, so wouldn't be corrupt people thought, the fact he's been on TV helping people get jobs, and the fact that he stood out as being different than all the typical establishment men before him. At the end of the day though nothing changed.

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That's exactly why I voted for him in 2016 and voted against him in 2020.

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I stopped voting here in Oz in the 1980's. I was a trade unionist and the then labour PM went after and destroyed lots of them. I voted for that prick, just like a good son, voting the way my father did. That's the usual thing isn't it, we do the exact opposite to our parents in every regard but voting. Weird. Here it's compusory to vote btw, one of the last places on earth for that, but there always loopholes, always loopholes...