#waiting for the next four years to pass by so aoc can run for president

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if i had a nickel for every time i was the first person to text my friend group gc the latest political news and we all got into a conversation about us politics i’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s kinda goofy it happened twice

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Hyper

When I was a kid growing up in the 1970s, nobody talked about Nixon. My parents had voted for him, as, I’m sure, had all of my conservative Catholic school teachers, and the parents of many of my friends.

But even though the man resigned when I was in Kindergarten, none of these people ever so much as mentioned his name.  I mean... I remember Ford being President, and nobody mentioned how he had come to be in that office.

Even on TV, not much talk about Nixon going on.  The term, Watergate, popped up every once in a while, but only in passing.  And in High school we did hear that Nixon had resigned, but it was mentioned like a trivia fact.

Did you know we once had a president who resigned?  Weird, huh?

Reagan was crazy popular among the grown ups, but we didn’t really know why, and in the media, there was an almost cultlike nostalgia for Kennedy, and rehashing his assassination over and over.

I remember being confused for many years about when exactly Nixon was even president.  Cuz, you know... you’d see him debating John F Kennedy in old black and white footage.  I think I assumed Nixon was the incumbent and Kennedy defeated him or something... which didn’t square with the resignation, but I didn’t think too hard about it.

It wasn’t until the Clinton era that you started to see articles and documentaries about Nixon and watergate, but my parents and their peers still never ever talked about it.  You felt like they had no real opinion about it, like it was just a thing that happened, but they were too busy raising you to even pay attention at the time.

They had passionate feelings about Nixon, in truth, but chose to bite their tonges forever about it, because... they’d lost that battle.  Better to let it go, play it cool, and wait for the pendulum to swing back in their favor some day.

And it kinda did with Reagan... then again with W... and one more time with Trump... who got his ass impeached in one term and followed that by falling completely to peices with Covid19.

So what is my point here?

It’s that this time around... once Trump is booted out of office... these past four years we’ve all been through will not be forgotten, or swept under the rug, or become a taboo subject they can avoid while waiting on that pendulum to return.

Why?  Because while Nixon was the closest thing we’ve ever had to Trump in modern times, Trump has a quality Nixon did not.  A quality which will trigger, what I call, The Hitler Effect.

What is that?  In a nutshell, it’s that ever since the day Hitler was defeated, we’ve been unable to stop talking about him.  

There is even the famous, Godwin’s Law of internet discussions, which says that the longer one goes on, the probablility of a comparisson involving the Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.

On the one hand, the Hitler effect seems logical for Hitler, given how evil he was, but... Stalin was arguably as evil, or more evil than Hitler, yet Stalin isn’t even a distant second to Hitler, in terms of being our go-to reference for everything we despise in a world leader.

Why?

The difference is that Hitler... was hyper.

Animated, loud, obnoxious, desperate for constant attention and, in Adolph’s case, extremely aggressive.

And it was this hyper personality trait that hypnotized many Germans into following him without question... while also terrifying those Germans who opposed him into backing down, and going along with him.

He was hyper in the way he waged war too, and so it was his hyper nature that inspired the allies to defeat that overactive, egomaniacal motherfucker at any cost.  

He seemed unstoppable.  He threatened the whole planet.  But in the end, he was soundly defeated... and when he was... he and his movement became irrelevant overnight.

Overnight, the Nazis were gone, and the world moved on to the issue of the cold war... but we never forgot what a fucking ass hole that guy was, and never stopped talking about it.

Okay, so... you get where I’m going here...

Trump is also hyper.  In fact, Trump is arguably more hyper than even Hitler was!

Am I saying Trump as been as evil as Hitler, or is worse overall than Hitler?  No... at least not so far.  But in terms of just being hyper... Donald is right up there with Adolph.

The incessant tweets... the endless rallies... the incendiary rhetoric... the bald faced lies delivered with unflappable arrogance.  The hair!  The whole, fourth grade vocabulary and schoolyard bully dynamic.  The mind numbingly low IQ.

These persoality traits, together with all of the horrifying thing’s he’s done, or refused to do... guarantee that from the moment he’s booted out of the White House... and for the next two hundred years... nobody will be able to shut up about what a fucking ass hole this guy was.

Where we used to say that the founders engineered the constitution to prevent another King George... they will now and forever after say, The founders anticipated Trump... thankfully.

Ammendments will be passed to prevent a future Trump... can’t run for president without scoring at least 100 on an IQ test, publishing your tax returns, and freezing your social media accounts.

A permanent firewall between the White House and the DOJ, with an Attorney General, and Inspector General who have to be approved by popular vote, after their Senate hearings.

Things like that.

Mid-term elections will, from this point forward, carry as much gravity as the general elections... because in the 21st century, two years already feel longer than four did in the 20th.  

A single term President (four years) will feel like a two-term president did in days past, and the bar for reelection will be exceedingly high.

You may fear this means more Republicans getting into office more often, and more chaos in general as we switch between parties every four years, but it’s starting to become clear that... post Trump... what we now think of as the Democratic party will be Mitt Romney/ Bob Dole style conservatives, playing against a yet to be named (or officially formed) progressive party a’la Bernie Sanders/AOC.

What we now know as the Republican party will, post Trump, be a far right wing white supremacist party of hyperactive candidates who have zero access to power, flying menacing elephant flags, and occasionally blowing up train stations to get attention.

As for Trump himself...

He’s going to prison.  He’s on the hook for several crimes by the SDNY that Biden (or any future president) can’t parden him for (Presidents can only pardon federal criminals).  And, after Covid19, he will not be getting a pardon from the Governor of New York, no matter who that Governor is in the future.

People right now, in July of 2020 think that can’t happen because all his angry supporters will cry bloody murder and never let us hear the end of it... a US President in prison!  How would we ever HEAL?

But... look, Trump is already going hyper racist in July, in response to BLM tearing down confederate statues and banning of the confederate flag as a symbol of hate.  He’s reopening the wounds of the Civil War, and making it fairly obvious to all of us that... the Union went too easy on the South after that war!

So by 2021... after Trump has done his hyper damnest to restart that war, posing as the modern president of the Confederacy, and all the hatred and racism it stood for... he’s not gonna be afforded the luxury that Jefferson Davis was... of remaining free.

He’s going to prison... his supporters be damned.  

Like with Hitler, Trump and his hyper diaper movement will become irrelevant overnight, and the world will move on to deal with Covid19, climate change, and all the other issues awaiting our attention in the 21st century.

That’s my take after work on a Saturday night in July.

And now it’s time for bed.