When history is written, he can't just be a bad apple...he has to be ONE OF THEM!

Anyone of them that has had any influence in the last two decades need to be off the table for national office.

Even if a Kasich had gotten in instead of the Dotard, most of the things done would have happened as well, just without the daily tweets to rankle us all.

...he wouldn't be as overt in his bigotry or quite as lacking in ethics, someone like Kasich would be seen as perfectly reasonable even if his policy positions were basically identical to Trump's.

Democrats need to finally put a stop to the rightward shift of the Overton Window, or else we'll see Trump 2.0 before long.

...need to bluntly state that Republicans have been fomenting and exploiting racism and sexism for half a century, and that the pre-Trump Republican Party laid the groundwork for Trump.

Trump is not some lone wolf bad apple. He's a symptom.

If Democrats don't beat that drum over and over and over again, we'll all regret it.

booked it too.

If we allow Republicans to succeed in establishing a narrative that says Trump (and all those who support him) would have been just fine if it weren't for a bit of corruption and if he wasn't quite as overt in his bigotry, it won't be long before we see Trump Version 2.0. Bank on it.

Trump is the crown to their vileness and dishonesty. Our leaders and those running for office must state that clearly everytime a camera is in their face and if there is no camera, find one or talk to opinion editors at newspapers. Time to stop turning the other cheek.

...to put the Overton Window in reverse. Republicans have succeeded in continually moving it rightward, meaning what once was extremism has become mainstream, while the likes of McCain and Collins are considered moderates, which would be absurd in a sane world.

... Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject. It depends on the habit of attending to and looking into public transactions, and on the degree of information and solid judgment respecting them that exists in the community, whether the conduct of the nation as a nation, both within itself and towards others, shall be selfish, corrupt, and tyrannical, or rational and enlightened, just and noble ...

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Inaugural_address_delivered_to_the_University_of_St._Andrews,_Feb._1st_1867

Good job here of pointing out the foul soil that Republicans allowed tRump to grow in. There is nothing we as Democrats can say to Republicans that can be a persuasive message, nothing that will penetrate through to their "brains." I've given up debating them and have at last arrived at this one message.

Whether in the ballot box or the battlefield, We Outnumber You. Sleep tight.

The corporate-owned media has done everything in it's power to normalize the criminality and systemic corruption of Republican administrations for decades and continues to do so today.

Their party is a Dubya factory.

repub congress who enabled him. They could have stopped him the first time he broke the law.

The monster isn't Trump but the environment that gave rise to the Republican Party of Trump.

The Trump base is the Republican base. Democrats (when appearing in the media, in campaign speeches, on the floor of Congress, etc.) need to bluntly state that Republicans have fomented and exploited racism, sexism and general ignorance over the last half century. Make it clear that the pre-Trump Republican Party laid the groundwork for Trump.

If we don't establish the dominant narrative, Republicans will...and it won't be long before we see Trump Version 2.0.