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If not for drumpf, we might have been stuck with President Cruz. We dodged that bullet.
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Credit where credit is due. (Original Post)
bluescribbler
Nov 2020
OP
I don't know. I can't imagine anyone ever being worse than trump. It's not possible.
brush
Nov 2020
#1
Cruz is competent. Cruz would have fucked up America is more permanent ways legislatively
In It to Win It
Nov 2020
#8
Without Trump, it's possible the Republican president who won in 2016 just won reelection.
Drunken Irishman
Nov 2020
#9
brush
(53,743 posts)1. I don't know. I can't imagine anyone ever being worse than trump. It's not possible.
But I used to think that about W. But still, worse than trump?
LuckyCharms
(17,413 posts)2. Exact words from my doctor yesterday...
"Here's the problem. The next one that comes along is going to be as bad as Trump, only he is going to be smarter and more personable. A guy like Ted cruz will do just as much damage as Trump".
bluescribbler
(2,113 posts)4. That's what scares me.
I worry that the next wannabe autocrat will be smarter and more competent.
Demsrule86
(68,469 posts)3. No, Cruz is a monster but no one could be worse than Trump.
Turin_C3PO
(13,911 posts)5. The only one I can picture
as possibly worse than Trump would be Stephen Miller. Hes a Nazi basically.
PCIntern
(25,484 posts)7. He's a Nazi in toto.
JI7
(89,240 posts)6. McConnell is as evil as Trump
In It to Win It
(8,225 posts)8. Cruz is competent. Cruz would have fucked up America is more permanent ways legislatively
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)9. Without Trump, it's possible the Republican president who won in 2016 just won reelection.
Cruz, Jeb, Rubio - who the hell knows? But they probably would have won reelection in 2020.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,816 posts)10. There is always a bright side.