# Trump is a threat to our nation, and those who are not actively opposing him are traitors **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 4, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-a-threat-to-our-nation-and-those-who-are-not-actively-opposing-him-are-traitors/820744 "2018-09-04T15:53:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-a-threat-to-our-nation-and-those-who-are-not-actively-opposing-him-are-traitors/820744/181 "2018-09-08T02:57:50Z")
> [@Brayne\_Ded](#): > > As yet it is hard to point to specific harm that Our Donald has done, or for me at least, but he is perpetuating and encouraging the trends that have weakened and divided America. \ A **nd as for “another amateur who is nothing more than a marketing huckster”, well, that is what the electorate got in 2008 and every election since,** and probably 2020 as well. Even if the USA magically gets a POTUS who tries to turn things around, the mess is so large that a recovery will be beyond the time in office of any incumbent. Many of the problems are in any case due a fundamental shift in the world away from the Cold war military, financial and political setup and the increasing development of a massively multi-polar world. It is just not possible to go back to some imagined Golden Age in, say, the 1950s. **Welp, THERE’S an appropriate username/in-post assertion combo if I ever saw one.** ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-a-threat-to-our-nation-and-those-who-are-not-actively-opposing-him-are-traitors/820744/182 "2018-09-08T03:37:52Z")
> [@Brayne\_Ded](#): > > … And as for “another amateur who is nothing more than a marketing huckster”, well, that is what the electorate got in 2008 and every election since, and probably 2020 as well. Wait one fucking minute. Your comparing Obama with Trump as a ‘marketing huckster’? Obama that is a graduate of Columbia and magna cum laude from Harvard law? A teacher of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years? And these are just a few highlights. Obama’s a 'huckster? You dare to compare him to a con man and failed business man? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-a-threat-to-our-nation-and-those-who-are-not-actively-opposing-him-are-traitors/820744/183 "2018-09-08T06:28:14Z")
Sure, Obama went to Universities, maybe even taught at one. But did he ever _start_ one? Exactly where is Obama University located, can you get a degree in _Sharia_ law there? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-a-threat-to-our-nation-and-those-who-are-not-actively-opposing-him-are-traitors/820744/184 "2018-09-08T17:10:25Z")
Too bad still-not-quite-batshit-crazy-yet Republicans like Lamar Alexander and Rob Portman have yet to de-neuter themselves with their fear of getting primaried, and just speak their mind on President Cyst. ok, Ben Sisse - there’s sort of a [start](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senator-ben-sasse-says-he-regularly-considers-leaving-the-republican-party/). Traitors, I tells ya! ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-a-threat-to-our-nation-and-those-who-are-not-actively-opposing-him-are-traitors/820744/185 "2018-09-09T01:18:01Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Sure, Obama went to Universities, maybe even taught at one. But did he ever _start_ one? Exactly where is Obama University located, can you get a degree in _Sharia_ law there? I think I just pissed in my pants. Thanks for the laughs; no thanks for the soiled drawers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-a-threat-to-our-nation-and-those-who-are-not-actively-opposing-him-are-traitors/820744.md?page=9)