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Zikten posted...

what about the next Trump? if he gets away with this, his successor will just learn that you can avoid punishment.

I actually think it's more likely we'll have a 'next Trump' if all Republicans in general are demonized and publicly ridiculed. Since they're still a significant amount of the American people, they can't simply be brushed aside like a small minority of loud-mouthed extremists.

Like it or not, they're there and they're not going anywhere, and I fear that the more they will be blamed, shamed and ridiculed, the more they will support some charismatic alt-right populist who will say that they are the good guys. That is also the reason why many of them voted Trump in the first place. They felt they were being shamed by literally everyone (i.e. a handful of loud-mouthed pronoun correctors on social media).

Sadly Trump has created a lot of division and enabled racist behaviour on his supporters' part, and inflated the idea that every announcement and source that doesn't speak in your favor is fake news.

These kind of developments definitely need to be extracted from society, but I sincerely believe that gradually building toward unity and cooperation is a more productive and pragmatic approach than condemning and ridiculing Republicans/conservatives as a whole.

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