Yes. I held my nose for Trump.It actually is a perfect analogy. In the obummer aftermath, resigned to the inevitability of HRC, most of us including you, would have taken about anyone to hold that off, we got a guy that rose to the challenge and held that off.
Now this is where you're full of Christmas stuffing. You can wind up your AI and send it off on the pages of INGO from 2017-2021 and find many many arguments on INGO where I argued with you guys on a whole array of disagreements on Trump's handling of many issues. If you don't remember those, let's say I suspect it's selective memory.You never seem to have any major policy complaints, just color of the plate type complaints. His tweets, his nicknames, his talking too much, the list of non-policy complaints here goes on…
I know you must really want to save that hungry man/colored plate thing. Sorry man. It don't play with reality. Trump did better than any Democrat would have. He actually did better than I thought he would. That does not in any way mean I agreed with Trump on all but the "plate color" issues. Not by any stretch.
As far as Trump rising to the challenge, the second worst POTUS candidate in US history beat the absolute worst, and not by a lot. The margins were razor thin in a few states. I'm pleased he pulled it off. And we were lucky as a nation that Hillary played the Tortoise and the Hare game and did not campaign where she should have, because we would not have had that non-Democrat break we had with Trump.
And that's the way I looked at it. It was a break from Democrats. Trump didn't do anything lasting that any historian will be able to point to from Obama to 0Biden. It's just a pause in the direction towards the cliff.