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I'm not saying trump isn't worse than what came before him but he absolutely is a symptom of what has been going on in the country for a long time. He is awful and doing awful things but presidents have been doing awful things for...as long as there have been presidents. Trump may be doing more awful things than usual, but most of it is just a lot more transparent than what people before him would have done.

It's all nice and easy to just act like he is some unique force, that Russia is to blame, that America wasn't this bad before trump but that just isn't true. He is awful and does awful things, yes. But he isnt that far removed from whats happened before him. It's just shocking and eye opening to see it done so brazenly.

I'm not trying to discredit Russia's involvement, these are serious things that absolutely warrant investigation and consequences and absolutely are a threat to the country. But Russia wasn't the cause of this. At best they helped push it along but more realistically they just hopped on for the ride to get a good deal out of it.

And while the media and basically everyone is caught up in the Russia news cycle and trumps Twitter feed, things that are just as important/arguably more important are getting swept under the rug. Like the thousands of people getting killed in Yemen by us-sanctioned troops, something that started while Obama was still in office
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