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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Yes, he definitely did have some accomplishments and did some good. Biden also made progress on cancelling some student debt, and many other things.

And that's what people need to understand - politics is RARELY a black-and-white issue - there are some positive developments and some negative developments. Though with Trump, for the life of me I can see NO positive accomplishments/developments (unless you are talking about the benefits for the oligarchy, corporations, and tech-bros, and monopolists).

There MAY be unintended consequences (both positive and negative) arising from an administration's policies, but I'm unwilling to give ANY Administration ANY credit for such effects.

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pete king's avatar

Just like Hitler's Germany?

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Francis/Clare's avatar

Well I feel that way about Ukraine. Plenty of blame on both Putin and Biden. I know that's not a popular viewpoint on this substack.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Putin is very similar to Trump - another strongman - fascist, authoritarian, dictatorial. Like you said in your comment - not many people (on this substack) understand or have enough knowledge about Russia and its history, hence the over-representation of Russo-philes here.

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Francis/Clare's avatar

We also don't know who on here is a plant. I'm reading Careless People about Facebook and Zuckerberg. Facebook worked closely with the first drumpf campaign and engineered his win.

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Francis/Clare's avatar

People love things to be B&W, which is not always the case.

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