Four years ago we knew we were in for a shit show. I couldn't have predicted how bad it would be

[captain queeg]

and how low the rethugs were willing to go to hang onto power. If I'd tryed to predict what's going on now I'd have never come close. It really switched into overdrive when the rethugs ignored the impeachment. Donny knew he could do anything he wanted and they'd protect him. That shit about shooting someone on fifth avenue was passed by a long time ago.

[yonder]

1. Agree, though it feels more like 40 years.

[mr_lebowski]

2. 4 years ago I was pretty certain that I'd just voted for POTUS for the very last time ...

And it certainly appears as though I was functionally correct.

[CrispyQ]

3. I said basically the same thing to my husband this morning.

"I knew it would be bad, but I never imagined how bad."

[RKP5637]

6. Yep, far beyond whatever we ever imagined. It's incredible. And the GOP is a complete failure

for this country. The GOP does not give a damn about the country or the people. All they want is power, money and control. At this stage, I do not have one republican friend. Anyone supporting this ass is not to be trusted, not at all.

[RKP5637]

4. Exactly Trump's approach, impeachment failed, so I got a pass (Trump) to do whatever

the fuck I want, and the GOP will back me.

[uponit7771]

5. I thought my family would be enslaved, I just didn't think there would be so many people approving..

... of it.

[RKP5637]

8. Trump, is bringing out the real ugliness of America. And America has a history of ugliness. I was

naive enough to think the US was far past that, but it is still alive and well in the US. In fact, millions and millions seem quite happy with it.

[Cosmocat]

7. It is every bit as bad as I expected not just for the jackass, but his party

knew we would be in a fight for the continuance of democracy in this country, and the R party would turn into a complete, full on, unabashed three ring shit show.

[DSandra]

9. I saw creeping fascism in this country since at least the Bush years

I knew that this country was heading to full fascism, and Obama was the only person standing in the way of it for 8 years. I knew the Republicans would eventually get in a fascist, it seems that Trump stepped up and decided to be the dictator and here we are.

[relayerbob]

10. We aren't breathing radioactive fallout yet

So, not quite as bad as I feared

[doc03]

11. Hillary Clinton warned us about him. Everything

came true.

[2naSalit]

12. Has never been ourside the realm of possibility on my reckoning.

[Ponietz]

13. Smash-and-Grab from the first day

It was agonizing to witness so many continue to operate under an old paradigm, lying low, playing wait-and-see; worse, that the vaunted FBI utterly failed to protect us.

[malaise]

14. And we will soon discover that it's even worse than we think

Rec

[cynical_idealist]

15. My prediction: An endless series of disasters

but so much worse.

All boundaries broken.