Follow Up: Was the Trump presidency as good/bad as you expected?

[Syt]

At the end of 2019, I asked the board how they thogutht he Trump presidency was going. The results were not good, for Trump.

http://languish.org/forums/index.php/topic,15942.0.html

Only 2 more weeks to go (we hope), and much has happened since October 2019, so I thought it interesting to do a final check in.

[DGuller]

Clearly much worse than I expected.  I think most people were kind of hoping that Trump's crazy bark was worse than his crazy bite, or that the great responsibility of the office would sober him up.  I don't think that even his greatest critics could foresee just how much of an irredeemable human garbage he really was.

[Monoriu]

When Obama took office, I thought it was impossible for the US to ever get a president who was worse than George W Bush. 

I was wrong.

So now I predict, it is impossible for the US to get a president who is worse than Trump.  This time, I will be right. 

[Admiral Yi]

Didn't expect this level of disregard for the law.

[Richard Hakluyt]

The big disappointment for me is how many Republicans still back him. The lack of respect for law and order by the Republican base is also worse than expected.

[Josquius]

The sad thing is even with the evidence slapping people in the face of how bad this has been, many still support him.

[Sheilbh]

About as bad as expected. My fears with Trump were always about him as a person and that it was always ridiculous to expect either a 70-something man to change that, or be managed given that he's someone who's literally never been employed or had to do things he didn't want to do. I don't think anything that's happened has been a surprise even if it is still shocking and extraordinary.

There's been less violence overseas than I expected. I thought he'd be more reckless in using the military.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

worse than expected.

[celedhring]

About as bad as expected for me. As in, more long term damage to the institutions than actual havoc during his presidency because of his own lack of ability/focus. Although during his last year he's been really close to deliver in the "internal strife" category.

[The Brain]

Last time I voted slightly worse than expected. Now much worse. I thought a coup was unlikely.

[Malthus]

Much worse.

We all knew he'd be incompetent. However, I mistakenly thought he'd be a do-nothing president. I did not know he would actively attack democratic institutions.

[Grey Fox]

Like in 2019, it is slightly better than I expected. I expected something just short of the Apocalypse.

[frunk]

The big disappointment for me is how many Republicans still back him. The lack of respect for law and order by the Republican base is also worse than expected.

I agree.  Trump has been exactly as bad as I expected.  He pushes and pushes and tries to get away with as much as he can.  Without the Republicans lining up behind him he wouldn't be nearly as dangerous (and in fact would already be out of office).

[Duque de Bragança]

Bad as expected, if not worse, with the Mons Capitolinus sine anseribus happening as the icing on the cake.

[grumbler]

Much worse than expected.  I had believed that the Republican party leadership would rein him in, not urge him on.  His antidemocratic instincts were as expected, but those of Mitch McConnell were not.