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Trump is awful and so was G.W. Bush and Reagan and Nixon and Andrew Jackson and even George Washington[1].

We don’t learn much in school about George Washington burning down Iroquois villages because we focus on other things. It’s entirely possible that Trump becomes so bad that the people who remember his misdeeds get erased like so many Iroquois or Vietnamese people or gays with HIV under these other presidents.

Here’s a clip [2] of Noam Chomsky describing the war crimes of every post WW2 president. Many people still regard those people as good presidents because they ignore their misdeeds.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Destroyer

[2] https://youtu.be/5BXtgq0Nhsc



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