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[-] abracaDavid@lemmy.today 34 points 2 months ago

It's a low bar. If we're now judging candidates in comparison to Trump then we're in trouble.

Trump isn't the standard. He's an anomaly, and we should aim way higher.

[-] InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 8 points 2 months ago

Lol, name the last Republican President that wasn't a moron.

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

https://ictnews.org/archive/theodore-roosevelt-the-only-good-indians-are-the-dead-indians

Morality wise, the last good Republican was Grant.

For intelligence it's Nixon imo. Tricky Dick didn't get where he was by being a moron, evil isn't stupid.

Eisenhower very definitely wasn't stupid either.

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

Bush Sr. Then Nixon before that.

[-] InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

Nixon was an idiot, so was Sr.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Nixon wasn't an idiot, he was corrupt.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Nixon was most definitely not an idiot. A piece of shit, absolutely, but an intelligent one. America is extremely lucky that Trump isn't Nixon

[-] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

I don't agree. A scale has to be useful for separating what you're measuring. Any scale that puts Kamala as "low" is like trying to measure the size of a banana and an orange in kilometers, they'll both measure "low". There is no decent measure by which Trump is anything but scum. Kamala (or just about anyone who isn't a Trump voter) ranks so far above Trump that they can't be anything under "excellent" on a scale designed to meaningfully compare these candidates.

Obviously the scale we should be using for our politicians SHOULD be better, and that's because we should have produced better candidates. With the candidates we have, we don't get to use a better scale because in doing so we'll be playing right into Republican narrative of "they're both the same" or Kamala is "low" quality so vote for Trump.

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, Trump did make a ton of people madly follow him.
It may be leading the world to ruin, but it is still leading.

I'd put the impact rating as "high".
The direction being undesirable.

this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2024
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