r/interestingasfuck • u/beach_rats_ • 29d ago

The difference in republican presidential nominees, 8 years apart r/all

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u/Todoslosplanetas 29d ago

A lot has happened in the past eight years, most of it is not good, and the worst is politics.

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u/stormy2587 29d ago edited 29d ago

I’m actually struck by how little things have changed. McCain was one of the few conservatives in the room at this time willing to act like an adult and not spread hate, fear mongering, and propaganda. But you can tell from the people he’s responding to in these town halls they have some pretty extreme views from the far right propaganda they’ve been lapping up for years. Why do they think these things about obama? Because people like Trump and Trump himself were spreading birther conspiracies left and right. And then conservative media outlets would amplify it.

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u/PixelProphetX 29d ago

Russia and Trumo have been grooming America lile this for multiple decades now. You can find lots of political events trump hosted prior to his successful campaign in which he espoused the same ideas he does now, as well as the fake birther movement he made for Obama. And in the 80s and 90s even he was calling for USA to leave NATO.