dagblog - Comments for "Trump Hasn&#039;t Taken Over the GOP" http://dagblog.com/link/trump-hasnt-taken-over-gop-25012 Comments for "Trump Hasn't Taken Over the GOP" en Good article, and I generally http://dagblog.com/comment/251581#comment-251581 <a id="comment-251581"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/trump-hasnt-taken-over-gop-25012">Trump Hasn&#039;t Taken Over the GOP</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Good article, and I generally agree.  I've long felt that all the over-the-top chatter and screaming about how Trump has changed pretty much the entire world is wildly exaggerating his importance.  Not to mention feeding his ego in such a way as to exacerbate the problem.  No one person less than two years into a term who had no prior political power can be anything even close to what is being so apocalyptically described - certainly not in what's left of a democracy that still works.  If we've anything to <em>really</em> fear it's our citizenry being systematically dumbed down ... but not only do I still believe the majority is learning, largely due to Trump, that we need to work harder to preserve what we've taken for granted, I have faith that we'll eventually up the game.</p> <p>Trump is a tiny man in a big job, and it's painfully obvious.  To give him credit, even power, for being more than that is absurd.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 19 Apr 2018 23:31:35 +0000 barefooted comment 251581 at http://dagblog.com