# So, this is what it looks like before the war.

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**Created:** [November 19, 2016, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-this-is-what-it-looks-like-before-the-war/772407 "2016-11-19T07:25:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-this-is-what-it-looks-like-before-the-war/772407/29 "2016-11-19T15:14:28Z")

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> [@foolsguinea](#):
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> It matters who the President is.Dubya was a disaster, and he’d actually held elective office before. Trump is inexperienced, incompetent, and a bigot–a dangerous combination. And the party will follow him off a cliff the same way they did Dubya, only this cliff will involve purges of the domestic population. Some conservatives are just that dumb, some are craven, some really believe in white supremacy, and some are cynical enough to embrace purges as a means to keep power,

This. What the naysayers miss is that DT is not “just another right-wing President” like Nixon or Reagan or Dubya - all of them were at least moderately experienced politicians, with largely political views, aims and goals.

DT is a total wild card with no political experience and increasing evidence that he understands next to nothing about how government works, from the Constitution on down to what a Cabinet and major appointees are supposed to do.

This is not “Aw, shit, the left lost this round.” This is “Holy shit, we’ve handed administration of the country to someone who is proudly ignorant of what his very job represents and means.” If not “Holy Motherfuckin’ Shitballs, we’ve just cheerfully elected the next name in the list of destructive tyrants that includes Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Pol Pot and others.”

Our choice at this moment is to let this orange bag of exploding shit continue, or have the EC revolt and possibly start something very much like a second Civil War.

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