# Trump calls for Biden to "Resign in Disgrace"

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**Created:** [August 16, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-calls-for-biden-to-resign-in-disgrace/948754 "2021-08-16T00:21:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-calls-for-biden-to-resign-in-disgrace/948754/12 "2021-08-16T04:20:23Z")

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> [@Bootb](#):
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> The Democratic party spent 40 years trying to dig their way out of the shadow of Vietnam, and Biden has single-handedly put them back there in the space of one week.

I don’t think so. As discussed in [this informative IMHO thread about the Afghanistan situation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afghanistan-today/948624/), there was never a particularly clear popular picture of a specific American geopolitical mission in Afghanistan.

For Americans, Vietnam was about defeating the commies. Afghanistan, on the other hand, was about getting the terrorists. Once Osama bin Laden was killed, ISTM, Americans in general didn’t care much about the Afghanistan situation one way or the other. (Which in itself is catastrophic, given the devastation our invasion wrought in the region; I’m just saying that most Americans don’t seem to see it as our catastrophe.)

Mind you, that’s not to say that Republicans won’t try to bang the Vietnam-analogy drum as hard as they can, and blame the Democrats and Biden as much as they can: they’ll follow Trump’s lead in that regard.

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