Let’s also not forget that Americans actually voted for him!! And continue to love/admire/support him.
My sympathy is limited for that very reason, although I am TERRIFIED for the entire planet with him in control. His tweet this morning about looting leading to shooting is a direct threat of genocide. I just can’t comprehend where this will end.
He lost the popular vote and only an unreformed quirk of their republic known as the Electoral College over ruled the popular vote to install him. It reminded me of the Bush vs Gore thing all over again.
While people have voted for him, I think it’s telling the gerrymandering of traditionally Democratic voters (lots of weirdly shaped districts about the place to try and artificially create Republican strongholds) as well as blatant attempts to disenfranchise poc voters. For example, requiring expensive IDs, moving voting halls, flooding Facebook with fake dates for registration etc., notwithstanding unless I’m corrected, but if you’re ever convicted of a felony, you can no longer vote at all in some states.
Trump is a gobby, amoral man but he does back down like, a lot. The stuff that gets through has the full backing of the Republican party while Trump takes the credit or responsibility depending on how you look at it.
Also, he has had the nuclear codes for four years now, and hasn’t used them e.g North Korea, Iran, Russia, China etc. Etc. Etc. From an international point of view: every cloud has a silver lining I guess.