"Probably not the best response?" So, walking backward is progress? Change for the worse is not a good thing.
Racism and misogyny are worse? Laughable, and only believed by those with a very short memory, or weren't alive to experience actual racism and misogyny. This is classic activism forever stuck in the present moment, never able to acknowledge any real and obvious progress. There will always be some degree of inequality, but to say that no progress has been made and that it's worse is absurd to the point of abject stupidity. They rewrite history daily. “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
Are you suggesting Trump made any kind of societal progress? Did he raise the country up in any way? Has he elevated the discourse?
Jesus, did anything happen in this country prior to Trump, anything at all, good or bad? I'm referencing progress made over a period of decades, hundreds of years. I know it doesn't suit the agenda, but there was a time before Trump, some of it really good, some really bad, and all parties participated in both the good and the bad. All take some credit and all get some blame. No clean hands in any of it.
True enough. Except that Trump left his footprint in shit. He did NOTHING to further the interest or well-being of the US or its residents. Not a single blessed thing.