# I pit over-the-top Anti-Trump hysteria **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [August 5, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735 "2025-08-05T18:11:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 737
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735/737 "2025-09-27T18:24:01Z")
I think – if that were _actually_ what you were doing – you’d get very close to no pushback whatsoever for doing it. But that’s not what you’re _actually_ doing. ETA: > [@The argument that Trump will do whatever he wants and no one can stop him is really fucking boring](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/745): > > Nah. It’s commonly meant to refer to the weakest form OF an opponent’s argument. And for the majority of us, it is NOT our argument at all. That, too, makes it a textbook straw man argument. Couple that with his arrogant insistence that people being pessimistic makes them fatalistic, paralyzed, and/or suicidal. How many of us must tell him that this is NOT what he’s seeing before he even begins to accept that we know what’s in our heads better than he does? If we aren’t worried on his term… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-over-the-top-anti-trump-hysteria/1021735)._