# Really, how destructive would a Trump presidency be

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [July 20, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-how-destructive-would-a-trump-presidency-be/760445 "2016-07-20T20:04:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-how-destructive-would-a-trump-presidency-be/760445/81 "2016-07-25T16:30:50Z")

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> [@adaher](#):
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> I realize liberals love to trot out Kansas, but Kansas isn’t the only state governed by a conservative governor. In fact, the majority of states these days are governed by conservative governors(Thanks Obama we love you!).🙂
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> Brownback has proven to be a horrible governor. But in Florida, Rick Scott has done a good job despite being disliked, Scott Walker, John Kasich, Mike Pence(and Mitch Daniels before him), most of the Western plains states…
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> Of course, things could go as badly as Kansas, but I hope Paul Ryan is smarter than Sam Brownback. My instincts tell me he is, since at core Brownback is just a Bible Thumper.

Texas has skated awfully close to a Republican supermajority in most recent electoral cycles (meaning that they can overturn a veto or filibuster outright without Democratic support),and even had one in 2010, and despite that they haven’t managed to wreck the place outright yet. It’s not a done deal yet though, considering as much of a mentally challenged fool that Dan Patrick is. If anything, the state is doing well economically, although not in other metrics.

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**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-how-destructive-would-a-trump-presidency-be/760445/82 "2016-07-25T16:32:31Z")

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The South is the SOuth, and it’s been the South whether run by Democrats or Republicans.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-how-destructive-would-a-trump-presidency-be/760445/83 "2016-07-25T18:13:56Z")

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> [@RickJay](#):
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> If Nixon had somehow skated through Watergate he would be remembered as a great President. His list of accomplishments is incredibly impressive.
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> Nixon was paranoid and dirty and looked like The Penguin, but he was a STATESMAN. He was a man who, for all his lust for power, saw his role as being to do his job as the holder of a given office, and he did, and as a result accomplished great things. Détente with China and arms reductions talks? Creation of the EPA? He did those things and more.
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> Do you think Donald Trump could do the good things Nixon did? I don’t think he could. He has neither the knowledge nor the temperament nor, frankly, the motivation to do anything to actually help his countrymen.

You’d have to incentivize it, like a NFL contract. Give him $10M extra for every point of approval rating above 50% when he leaves office or something.

(Not that he’d ever sniff 50% anyway…)

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