# Maybe the Trump Phenomenon might be a GOOD thing? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 25, 2017, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-the-trump-phenomenon-might-be-a-good-thing/780696 "2017-02-25T05:05:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 13
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-the-trump-phenomenon-might-be-a-good-thing/780696/13 "2017-02-25T17:39:07Z")
The effects of Trump and the Republicans are likely to be global and so negative that no positive result can make up for them. A new Great Depression, widespread wars and the likely use of nuclear weapons or even a full-on nuclear war. And an America that is fundamentally hostile to the rest of the world isn’t a good thing, either. > [@ZebraShaSha](#): > > It might be good in the sense that they are trying to destroy most of the niceties of government that everyone takes for granted, or thinks are evil due to Republican propaganda – pollution regulations, financial regulations, PBS, the NFA, and now, subsidized healthcare. But in their wanton destruction they are pissing off a lot of normal, centrist folks, not to mention progressives. So when the pendulum of power swings back to the left, it’s going to swing back _hard._ People have been telling me for\* decades\* that “sooner or later the pendulum will swing left”; instead there’s been a slow slide to the right, and now the US is sliding right off the cliff into the abyss of fascism. There’s isn’t any pendulum; there’s a _ratchet._ And with the Republicans in a position to implement unrestrained voter suppression and worse it really doesn’t matter how unpopular the Republicans become; they can simply declare themselves the winners anyway. That’s what happens when you put anti-democratic people in charge of a democracy; democracy dies. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-the-trump-phenomenon-might-be-a-good-thing/780696)._