Well yeah, because Trump is a very bad person and a very risky choice to lead an important nation like the US. He'll also be our oldest ever president if he serves this full term, and even now shows clear signs of decline. We just went through that same thing, but with a person who was younger at the time of the election, and it's not good.
I think there are plenty of reasons to remain optimistic for the US on longer timescales, but for the next few years, this was a terrible outcome for which pessimism is warranted.
It isn't blinkered or bigoted. He is a very bad person who is obviously old and declining, and him becoming president again is a terrible outcome for our nation.
It's true that a lot of people - including me sometimes! - extend this criticism to his supporters, and I think it's also probably true that the backlash to this has a bit to do with the election outcome this year.
But I didn't do that in the comment you replied to. I would go so far as to say that many of the people who voted for Trump totally agree with me. Everyone knows he is a very bad person, that's part of his whole schtick, and even lots of the people who voted for him think he is a bad person to lead the country (ok, they might not say "terrible", like I did). I think where I disagree with most of those people is just on the question of whether electing a member of the incumbent administration would have been better or worse. I think better, they think worse.
In my view, neither of the candidates had a coalition to win with only votes for them, and it was Trump who won the battle for votes against his opponent. Still a bad outcome though, I think!
It’s actually the best outcome for our nation and I’m sorry you don’t see that yet. Perhaps I’m more optimistic than you due to all of the research I had done. Anyways, sunshine and blue skies are ahead.
Just don't forget to turn off the fake news for the next 4 years as you probably already learned from last time or they’ll drive you insane.
I was here last time. It's bad to have a president of such low character. I will prefer some of the policies to what we would have seen instead, but he will continue to sow chaos, cruelty, and division, and we'll all be the much worse for it.
I think there are plenty of reasons to remain optimistic for the US on longer timescales, but for the next few years, this was a terrible outcome for which pessimism is warranted.