General Discussion

I'm in my 60s, and I've seen that change year by year. Trump could not have been elected 50 years ago, and even if elected a bipartisan coalition in Congress would have stopped him, just as they stopped Nixon.

Trump didn't become president in a vacuum. He was put there by the creeping rot in Congress, but also in our electorate. There are still many good, decent Americans in this country... but not as many as there used to be. A call to country just doesn't work anymore, not if it annoys or inconveniences the entitled individual. And we've accepted coarse and vulgar discourse to such an extent that Trump's verbal diarrhea, the voice of our country on a global stage, is apparently just fine for millions of people.