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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone please demonstrate how Donald Trump can "ruin" America?

[b]I'm mildly curious. After all, we had the Bush presidency and I can't claim to have found the country ruined after he left office.[/b]

And there have been terrible presidents in the past too. Andrew Jackson was probably far worse than Donald Trump could ever possibly be and he didn't "ruin" America either.

This is not to say that I find Donald Trump an ideal candidate (I despite the man for many reasons) but I do not buy all this fear that somehow Trump will lead to the irrevocable decline of America. We have an extremely strong system of checks and balances, multiple levels of government each with its own separate powers down to the state level and municipality levels, we have a large house of congress, many of whom, including Republicans, despise Donald Trump. We have a huge and very vocal population and one of the biggest and most free media entity in the world that does nothing but closely follow every step the president takes.

The president's power is much more limited than most people realize. [/quote]
Off the top of my head: 9/11 - which a more aware President may have been able to stop, those two little wars we started that we're still fighting and that birthed ISIS, greater debt than we could ever dream of, that teensy little financial blip the country is still recovering from. All strictly George? No, you're right, the president is not a dictator (no matter what the Republicans say of Obama). But he did have a hand in creating and steering the policies a lot of these things. With time passed we can now see that W was a nice enough guy who was way, way, [i]unforgivably[/i] out of his league. I can't even fathom the mess Short Fingers would make.[/quote]

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