Is the Trump administration worse than you expected?

[yardwork]

38 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Yes, this is even worse than I expected.
	24 (63%)
	No, this is just as bad as I expected.
	10 (26%)
	This is not quite as bad as I expected, so far.
	2 (5%)
	The really big drop on the water slide is coming up
	1 (3%)
	I disagree with the premise of this poll.
	1 (3%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[shrike]

1. God, yes.

[tallahasseedem]

2. I hate to say it...

but yes, far worse than expected.

[rzemanfl]

3. K&R for visibility. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I expected it to be terrible

but this is downright monstrous; beyond terrible.

[yardwork]

5. Thanks for the replies!

[herding cats]

6. It has exceeded my expected horror level

And, it has done so in record time.

[yardwork]

8. Shock and awe.

[herding cats]

13. That's exactly what they're doing.

This time liberalism and democracy are the enemies.

[femmocrat]

7. Every day is worse than the one before.

This is way worse than w, and I thought if we survived him, we could survive this. I was wrong.

[TrekLuver]

9. I expected it to be bad and it is. After this Trashbag didn't "pivot" during the convention I knew

this was a long cause and he's not changing....he's probably incapable of any kind of change. So this is just as I expected...as soon as I heard Bannon was on board and let's not forget the disgusting parade of women at the debate I said Oh this is bad..this is really really bad and they'll stop at nothing.

[yardwork]

12. That's where I am, plus I think something really big and bad is coming up.

[TrekLuver]

10. FUCK TRUMP HE WILL NOT BREAK US.

[yardwork]

14. YES! Humor is one of our weapons.

Thank you for participating in my poll.

[treestar]

11. Much worse

Already disobeying court orders

[etherealtruth]

15. Actually yes .... the incompetence (very) is as I expected

...but I did not expect him to plunge forward so quickly with an agenda solely based on hate .... I do know he had a campaign solely based in hate (racism and bigotry of all stripes) so I don't know why I expected a slow slide into hate.

Hate is all he has

[eleny]

16. Yes, because I'm even having nightmares about him regularly

.............. ..............

[yardwork]

17. I'm sorry about that.

[eleny]

23. Thx! I'm not usually nightmare prone

So every night now I'm going to remind myself that I own my dreams and tell myself how I want them to be. It worked for me decades ago when I had a run of bad ones. I expect to take control of the situation.

Btw, it never happened during W's administration. But this guy is even more of a danger to the world given his hateful and erratic behavior.

Thanks again, yardwork!

[yardwork]

39. That sounds like a great strategy.

Wishing you peaceful dreams.

[Cha]

18. No.. that's why I was in extreme shock on election night.

[yardwork]

40. Me too. Knew all this would happen....

[Warren DeMontague]

19. I expected it to exceed my expectations in terms of badness.

So I'm not really sure how that translates into an answer.

[yardwork]

34. I think you want the water slide response.

That's my choice too.

[briv1016]

20. I said from the beggining that I view Donald taking power as a double extinction level event.

The first being climate change and the second being nuclear war. As far as I can tell, we're still barreling down both paths. If anything we're accelerating. Everything else is second tier.

[Sissyk]

21. No.

He fucking TOLD us. he TOLD everyone! Go back and take a look at his campaigning. It's all there. (And, I'm not directing this at you, OPer).

We were too damn busy trying to lift up our candidate from OUR OWN PARTY MEMBERS that just couldn't vote for her, because.....

Now, look what we got. He.told.us.

Elections have consequences.

I am glad though to see we may be finally joining together, because it's going to take all of us to fight this.

[yardwork]

35. I agree that his words and actions told us everything we needed to know.

So far, nothing he's done has surprised me. We're only in the second week though.

[ismnotwasm]

22. Nope.

It's exactly what I expected.

[qwlauren35]

24. I wouldn't be surprised if...

the people who are surprised are the people who stayed home. Those people who didn't like Hillary but voted for her anyway, or endorsed her, like George Bush and George W. Bush, knew what they were doing. Even Ryan is scared of him. Didn't want to campaign with him.

My husband is convinced (I think he's out of his mind) that Hillary would have done all of the same things. He really believed that her left wing views were lies to get her elected, and as soon as it happened, she would sell us out. So maybe the people who stayed home thought this too. Disagreement got me nowhere, so I just did my best to point out her strengths and her voting record.

[yardwork]

36. Wow. That must be difficult. You sound like a patient person.

[qwlauren35]

42. It's hard to explain.

My husband has never been so vocal about his opinion before. And he has always supported me when I was campaigning. He seems to have found his voice, and I probably couldn't shut him down if I tried. So, I tune out when he's talking about Hillary. Most of the other stuff he says I agree with.

[sheshe2]

25. It is as bad as I expected.

It will continue unabated.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. Well, I expect worldwide nuclear war by the end of February, so no i guess

[lpbk2713]

27. Trump is as bad as I was expecting.

But he is exceeding my expectations with the choices he has
made for cabinet positions and other high level offices. I
thought he would at least choose some talent that could
bail his worthless ass out but that isn't gonna happen.

[AnnieBW]

28. I figured that this was going to happen

I just didn't think that it would happen this quickly.

[AlexSFCA]

29. MUCH WORSE

I was hoping that he was using Bannon/alt-right just to win the election. I was hoping he would be focusing on jobs only initially. I never expected daily gaslight from WH. I refused to beleive it was going to be a coup. This was the most consequential election in our lifetimes; the one that's about to end our democracy. A radical departure from our values.

[Miles Archer]

30. Nope.

I expected "Apprentice"-level excess, and decisions based on what was most likely to piss off Democrats / Liberals.

And that's exactly what we got.

Obviously, I had no idea of specifics, but in terms of magnitude, this is exactly what I expected...and this is just the warm-up act.

[torius]

31. I was expecting horrific

but not at the rapid speed it's gone. Thought rather than instant chaos, he'd flounder trying to figure out how to get what he wanted done without knowing anything about government. I didn't know he could snap his finger and trap people at airports--I had this belief there were laws that worked at least in day-to-day situations. Now I know better.

[obamanut2012]

32. It is worse FASTER than I expected

I ifgured some of this would take six months to a year.

[mvd]

41. I would agree here

The dismantling of the country is coming really quickly.

[Wounded Bear]

47. That's where I'm at....nt

[Rex]

33. Impossible, there are no depths to sink to with Trump...it is just one mighty leap

into the blackhole then nothing! Him getting 'elected' is the bottom, America can not sink any lower.

[yardwork]

38. Well, I wouldn't condemn the whole program until all of the facts are in.

[Rex]

44. Facts or alt facts?

Smithsonian or Foxnews?

[mvd]

37. I expected it to be really bad.

I think only a nuclear war started already would have been worse than my expectations.

[Jamaal510]

43. Nope, he's

doing everything and fulfilling all the incompetence I expected from him so far (aside from the "locking her up" and "building the wall" things). I paid attention to all the ignorant things he said and lofty regressive promises he made since he started campaigning, and it comes as no surprise to me how his administration is sabotaging the country in the first few weeks. I always expected him to be worse than Bush II, especially with the GOP controlling all 3 branches.

[neeksgeek]

45. This is pretty much what I expected.

But it could always get worse.

[mnhtnbb]

46. I expected it to be awful and so far it has not disappointed.

[NotThisTime]

48. It's not worse than I expected, just quicker. I expect it to get worse.