Think about Nixon for reference. He founded the EPA, did some foundational diplomacy, worked to desegregate the schools and all — but most everything connected to him is about the impeachment and resignation.
But I’m not seeing any kind of ‘bright side’ the future will care about, even slightly to the Trump era or presidency.
It’s all just been a constant churn of disaster after disaster, with pointless harm at each step.
It’s not some complex story about a complicated man who just wanted to do good — the dude came in on racist Obama attacks, and basically rode that reputation of pointless hatred the entire time.
Then kept riding it through every kind of disaster, helping virtually no one that wasn’t already rich.
It’s always weird this time around — usually, there’s some kind of give-and-take aspect, of seeing some virtue that justifies the vice, of being part of a process of learning and improving - but no.
No — this whole Trump era was just a set of voters choosing hatred, and sticking with that hatred, as a sick form of entertainment.
I’m glad we at least impeached the guy.
I’d rather not think of what future people would think of us if we didn’t at least push to do that.
What’s going to be really weird is in 50 years from now, someone opening up an attic, and finding these bits of Trump memorabilia — it’s just going to be so bizarre on the context to imagine how any group could draw itself in the direction where Trump — literally Donald f’ing Trump would be seen as a ‘leader’ of any kind.
In retrospect, there's not going to be any thread visible to how a nation could go in this direction.
It’ll just be one of those eras we kind of push to be forgotten and skipped over aside from a few sentences about the many disasters, including the disasters created by the response to disasters.
Such an odd story we chose to tell as a people with this time of our shared lives.