about how Obama supposedly "apologized" for America yet they ignore the fact that Trump has repeatedly denigrated our intelligence agencies in favor of the RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, and that he has said that he won't criticize Putin's record on abuses and treatment of political opponents and journalists and Russian meddling in our election because America has done bad things too. Trump has said these things repeatedly. He laughed away in the Oval Office with Kislyak and Labrov while the American press was shut out. He sat like a whipped puppy dog next to Putin, very obviously obeying Putin and profoundly intimidated by him -- yet we still hear the Repubs crying about how Obama was "weak" in the eyes of the world.
Trump is a laughingstock in the eyes of the world; the supposed rise of the nationalism movement Trump represented has totally crashed and burned in Europe with the failures of Wilders in the Netherlands and Le Pen in France (this was a huge blow to the "Trump is leading a revolution!" meme as they had been comparing Le Pen to Trump for months and her thorough defeat shattered that narrative). May's recent electoral losses in the U. K. were also very bad news to the Trumpers as May had aligned herself with Trump. It is obvious from the body language of every major world leader who has interacted with him that they realize that he's hopelessly out of his depth.
Worst of all, it is obvious to the world that America is being ordered about by a foreign power -- that Putin has Trump on a short leash. All those years and all those lives lost fighting against the evils of communism, all of the lives destroyed by anti-communist persecutions led by people like McCarthy, and here we are -- we have a president with ties to Russia, whose obedience to Russia couldn't be more obvious, yet the Repubs are saying nothing.
Even if they think they can accept this because this gives them a short period of time in which they can push through their shitty legislation, the long-term damage from this is going to affect this country and both parties for decades.
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