Electing Donald Trump a second time is the worst thing this country has done to itself

[In It to Win It]

I can’t even say it’s the worst mistake, but it wasn’t a mistake. People voted for this motherfucker intentionally. I see how countries implode.

Never thought I’d feel grateful that Americans felt the need to add presidential term limits to the constitution. The only hope I have is that Trump’s time as President will come to end.

[Blue Owl]

1. I think he elected himself with Elon Musk's assistance

[Tree Lady]

4. Me too between the money

And whatever they did to machines I fully believe he stole it.

[CommonHumanity]

8. Me three!

[yellow dahlia]

13. Me four!

[yellow dahlia]

12. Yes!

[RockCreek]

24. Not to mention selective disenfranchisement

[yellow dahlia]

11. Absolutely correct!

[debsy]

18. This is precisely my thinking

[SheltieLover]

26. Absolutely!

[Initech]

28. 100% Elon helped rig the election.

[misanthrope]

2. I beg to differ

The worst thing this nation ever did to itself was not adequately punishing the traitors in the Confederacy and not doing more to shatter the regional culture.

[debsy]

19. Or, we could go back further and say the worst thing this country has done is...

…built an amendment into the Constitution that deemed humans with dark skin as 3/5 of a human. That systemic failure has led to many, if not all, of our subsequent problems.

[sop]

21. It's an unbroken thread, leading to Trump.

[LuvLoogie]

3. It's the white supremacy

Too much democracy for the non-white, non-christian

[Emile]

5. I don't think he won the election.

I don't see how he won every battleground state. Anyone who orchestrated an insurrection 4 years earlier to steal an election, is more than capable of cheating to win.

[FakeNoose]

6. It sure looks like he had a lot of "help" from people who benefitted after it was over

Will we ever be able to prove? I don't know, but I sure hope so!

[yellow dahlia]

15. The fact they were able to reach their goal of an authoritarian take over,

reveals their motivation.

[Initech]

29. Anyone else find it suspicious that Elon Musk's net worth doubled since Trump took office?

Literal theft at our expense.

[yellow dahlia]

14. Exactly!

[DSandra]

7. Voters wanted change...

What happens when you mindlessly vote for change because you don't bother to do further research onto your outrage, and then end up falling for the con-artist which happens to be much worse.

[Warpy]

10. I have a great deal of sympathy for those

who know they've been let down by both parties for decades and are falling farther behind every year. I knew how bad Fatso was going to be, so I didn't agree with them, but I can certainly identify with where so many are coming from.

It's why we had the spectacle of pro Sanders voters switching to Fatso., something neither party understood.

Unfortunately, while continuing support for the stability of a system that contines to fail more and more of us every single year is self defeating, voting for a wrecking ball like Fatso tends to destroy more of the good than the bad.

[leftstreet]

22. +1

Nicely stated

[DSandra]

23. As bad as one hell is, it's a lot better than the hell that voters chose

The hell that voters chose this last election will bring down most everyone not in the 1% with it, including people from other countries. People just decided to now be responsible for bringing hell to everyone else.

[mdbl]

16. They didn't vote for change, they voted for criminality

they had plenty of forewarning.

[Soul_of_Wit]

20. Change for change's sake

Some voters always want to "throw the bums out." The idea that the new bums might be worse than the old bums is not even briefly considered.

Many voters hate inflation. I learned this as an adolescent in the '70s, when we had real inflation. The party in power will always be punished for any significant inflation. Blaming it, correctly, on the rapid economic upswing after the pandemic downturn was never going to work.

A reminder: The Republican Party is the disease. Donald is the symptom. MAGA is the horrendous side-effect.

[DSandra]

25. Corporations bear part of the fault for this

They took advantage of some inflation to use it as an excuse to raise prices, mentioned as "greedflation" at the time (and they gloated about record profits.) Their short term thinking (from only caring about quarterly revenue and profit) in part led to this disaster.

[Initech]

30. Fox News.

Fox News fuels outrage where it doesn't need to be, and they target people who don't bother to read the actual news articles beyond the basic headlines. So they amplify shit when necessary. Which is how they amplified the talking point that liberals "burned down cities" during the George Floyd riots, when really, the actual protest area in Portland was a mere 2 blocks.

It's all perception vs reality, and people choose the perception every time.

[DSandra]

37. FOX News is destroying the concept of free speech

They have abused free speech to brainwash people into believing in an entire alternate universe where down is up and up is down, and where liberals are evil commies led by George Soros seeking to replace them with criminal minorities.

[ToxMarz]

9. Don't forget the misogynist, racial aspect of the race

We haven't as a nation moved past, and I think it was enough of an albatross to deliver his win. He still didn't win by much, but enough.

[Gaugamela]

17. Unfortunately democracy is predicated on the idea that the people will make

an informed and rational choice when voting. Half of Americans read at a fifth grade level or below, and anyway I would bet that two-thirds of Americans don’t follow politics at all. They don’t even watch Fox News. Their choices are determined by their peers — whatever nonsense they pick up in the inane chatter. It is human nature to adhere to the social consensus around us. There is safety in the tribe. The right-wing echo chamber figured this out decades ago and use it to their advantage.

[J_William_Ryan]

27. Electing Trump the first time was as much a disaster, if not more so.

And until the next Republican president worse than Trump.

[Initech]

31. So many of the problems Trump and MAGA are claiming to fix were caused by Trump.

But republicans own the media and they get to control the narrative, so we're stuck with the fucking asshole for now.

Boycott all mass media, it's poison.

[In It to Win It]

34. Electing him the first time was disastrous, but I think this second time is even worse

This second term feels a lot different than the first term. He is a lot more emboldened this time than his last time.

I think what makes the second time worse is that it will take even longer to rebuild what is gone. After the first term, there was a feeling that restoration was possible. I no longer believe that restoration is possible this time. There is no going back after Trump's time in office. How people view the presidency and its power will change after Trump's time.

[Wounded Bear]

32. "Doctor! Doctor! It hurts when I do this!"

Doctor: Well, stop doing it.

There's a streak of masochism buried deep in the American psyche.

[Faux pas]

33. "We" had NOTHING to do with him being elected.

He/they/it stole the election.....REMEMBER?

[yaesu]

35. The worst thing russia, the supreme fascist court, elon musk, the uber rich tech bros and really, really stupid voters

have done to the US.

[maxrandb]

36. My take is that the biggest mistake America ever made

Was letting the Confederate cockroach flip over when the Union had it on its back, under its boot.

If Reconstruction had been handled correctly, a bunch of those "Slave Power" states would just now, in 2026, be requesting readmission to the Union...and a lot would still be rejected!