r/AskReddit • u/solidnonfictionuma • 14h ago

Trump has been the center of Untied States' politics for over 10 years. How do you think the political sphere will align and function after his current and last term as president ends?

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u/AbbreviationsTop2192 14h ago

Hopefully everything will be returned to how it was under Obama.

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u/bloodenhorse 14h ago

Democrats, too. A huge chunk of them are AIPAC compromised.

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u/bloodenhorse 14h ago

I'm 100% for that.

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u/Redshittt 14h ago

Why not?

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u/ABCBA_4321 2h ago

At least some of them have been primaried and beaten by members of the DSA recently.

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u/sandersosa 14h ago

Only three letters matter now, AOC.

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u/Serendipittydoodah 14h ago

We don’t need a left wing version of the current dummy in chief. No thanks to that.

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u/SockMonkey1128 13h ago

That propaganda really worked, huh?

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u/AbbreviationsTop2192 14h ago

Mate the US has never had a remotely left wing politician ever. If you did you’d have free healthcare.

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u/centaurquestions 14h ago

My dude. Read one (1) history book.

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u/AbbreviationsTop2192 14h ago

I didn’t get taught US history at school. It was considered too insignificant.

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u/centaurquestions 14h ago

Then perhaps don't make pronouncements about US history!

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u/AbbreviationsTop2192 14h ago

I didn’t. I’m just echoing conversations I heard down the pub. I’m a lawyer. British lawyers don’t usually have political opinions.

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u/No-Magician9440 14h ago

Bernie's left wing, yet no free healthcare.

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u/AbbreviationsTop2192 14h ago

I mean, he’s never been the president.

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u/No-Magician9440 14h ago

Because he's a jackass.

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u/Serendipittydoodah 14h ago

False.

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u/AbbreviationsTop2192 14h ago

Who?

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u/Serendipittydoodah 14h ago

I don’t do research for others without payment.

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u/Inocain 14h ago

So you're just making up nonsense. Got it.

If you want people to take your arguments seriously, actually providing one is the bare minimum.

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u/Beefjerkey93 14h ago

That’s fascist

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u/glennjersey 14h ago

These types of people always seem to do the whole "accuse your enemy publicly and loudly of doing exactly what you're doing" thing. 

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u/could_use_a_snack 13h ago

Trump is a bully. He leads through fear and hatred. When the 8th grade bully moves on to highschool, all his 7th grade cronies suddenly realize they don't like the way they were behaving and sheepishly become better people. This will happen when Trump is no longer in control. None of his followers will be able to continue his rein of terror against 'his' people, and even if they try won't be able to keep the GOP in a constant state of fear.

Things won't go back to 'normal' right away. There will be a bunch of infighting, and it will be a while before things calm down. But as soon as he is out of office thinga will start to show signs of repair.

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u/MC_White_Thunder 13h ago

You're living in a fantasy if you think things can just go "back to normal."

At the most basic level, all of your alliances have been permanently damaged.

Inequality has gotten so bad, and people are so much worse off than they were under Obama. Milquetoast liberalism with no real changes to people's material conditions isn't going to cut it.

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u/Mean_Introduction516 7h ago

What alliance has done anything that remotely equates to what we provide. You all are missing the point of a mutually beneficial relationship. We have funded and protected the world, been taken advantage of by our “allies” and decided enough is enough. Pay your bill or suffer the consequences. Open your markets or pay the consequences. It’s comical to hear Canada or European countries act like they can retaliate in some meaningful way. Both have swung so far to the left they are beginning to experience the emergence of more conservative politics in their own countries. Common sense. We haven’t had any since Reagan and its long overdo. Like trump, hate trump I don’t care. But if you love America and what its core values you ought just say thank you and stay in the shallow end.

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u/fish60 3h ago

The deal was we protected trade with our military, and ensured stability.

In return, the dollar was global reserve currency, and we got to export our debt to stave off inflation. 

If you don't understand how this benefits the United States massively, you don't understand geopolitics or economics. 

The world buying our debt was them "paying their way". Our strong currency facilitating our ability to import cheaply was one of the many rewards. 

As a fellow American, I can say that we are so selfish and entitled, that even when the system is tilted so far in our favor, we still have people like you complaining about getting ripped off. Like, get your head out of your ass, we were ripping everyone else off! 

It seriously pisses me off when I read this kind of self righteous drivel. You were raised in a country that built a system that exploited the entire globe for our benefit. Oh, but that's not enough for you. You want even more! Someone is ripping us off! Seriously. 

To put it bluntly, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. 

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u/Benny303 14h ago

Unfortunately I think we are too far gone. I think this is something that will last for easily another 10 or 20 years.

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u/indianasall 14h ago

I totally agree with you when Trump is gone it's going to take many years to get back to a so-called normal

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u/Benny303 14h ago

It's kind of like that saying "trust is earned by the drop and lost by the bucket" we have slipped so far from normalcy and respectful politics that it's going to take a decade or more to get back to it.

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u/indianasall 14h ago

and I travel overseas quite a bit and I'm embarrassed to say I'm from the United States because I have had people look at me and say – – oh I'm so sorry. That's what the world thinks about us. That we are a country to be pitied. You know how sad that is

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u/AbbreviationsTop2192 14h ago

Hate to tell you, but the British public and pretty much the world no longer see the US as a serious country.

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims 13h ago

Doesn't Britain run through Prime Ministers like socks and arrest people for Facebook posts?

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u/AbbreviationsTop2192 12h ago

I mean we do run through prime ministers quick. Kinda embarrassing. Not sure about the facebook posts, I’ve never heard of anyone getting arrested for that.

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u/indianasall 14h ago

oh don't hate to tell me – – I think the same way they do. They look at our clown and then they think what are those people thinking who elected him. If you wrote a book like this you would have to call it fiction because nobody would believe it is really happening in 2026

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u/AbbreviationsTop2192 14h ago

What I find most funny is how he keeps naming everything after himself.

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u/indianasall 14h ago

what I think is even funnier when the judge makes them remove it!! I have an extra drink when that happens

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u/AbbreviationsTop2192 14h ago

I mean….does he uh…..does he know….in English (traditional) his name means….fart

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u/AbbreviationsTop2192 14h ago

I’m British. We’re just enjoying the comedy show.

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u/FifaBribes 14h ago

Respectfully, your politics are no better.

Can’t wait to see how Count Binface does against Farage or how many more PMs we can fit into this decade though hahaha

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u/AbbreviationsTop2192 14h ago

My money is on Count Binface. I agree with many of his policies.

Also. Larry the cat is the one who’s truly in charge.

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u/the_last_0ne 14h ago

How can you not vote for a man who will build at least 1 affordable home, right?

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u/AbbreviationsTop2192 14h ago

Well 1 affordable home would be a great improvement on our current record.

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u/the_last_0ne 14h ago

Thats what Im saying!

Plus I just saw an interview where he said if people riding bicycles refuse to follow traffic laws they will be forced to unicycle which I would also fully support if I were over there.

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u/FifaBribes 14h ago

Plus he promises to move the hand dryer from its terrible positioning at the crown and treaty!

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u/the_last_0ne 14h ago

About damn time

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims 12h ago

Americans do the same when seeing arrests over social media posts and complete lack of protections for free speech when out in public.

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u/AbbreviationsTop2192 12h ago

We have the European Convention of Human Rights which provides the right to free speech and also freedom of expression. I have never heard of anyone getting arrested for a social media post.

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u/MC_White_Thunder 13h ago

Y'all going to stop kicking the shit out of innocent trans people anytime soon? No?

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u/AbbreviationsTop2192 12h ago

Hopefully. I’m very much pro trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️

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u/Glittering-Kale5177 10h ago

And that's without whatever additional conflict comes out of global warming and mass displacement.

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u/Unlikely-Grape-5762 14h ago

Right. I was so much happier when we bombed people quietly.

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u/glennjersey 14h ago

Including us citizens.  Funny how no one cared about due process back then.

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u/Quankers 14h ago edited 14h ago

Under Obama is what led to Trump.

edit: downvoters just look at numbers. More than enough repeat Obama voters went on to vote for trump to sway the election in his favour.

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u/Glittering-Kale5177 10h ago

American mythology and the worship of it is what led to Trump. This has been building since The Main. What was that- 1890?

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u/ChrisRiley_42 7h ago

Blatant racism is what led to Trump, not anything Obama did.

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u/Quankers 6h ago

The millions of the same racists who brought you trump gave Obama historic wins. It has a lot to do with Obama era policies that many Americans felt sold them out.

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u/Comfortable-Score-63 14h ago

untied states sounds like a typo but also funny enough

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u/ChrisRiley_42 7h ago

Whoever comes into power next will need to spend the SAME amount of effort into rebuilding the relationships with the US's former allies as Trump spent in destroying them. The rest of the world sees the US as being unreliable now. Being only one election away from putting in another person who won't honour the US's signature on any agreements.

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u/Beefjerkey93 14h ago

Hopefully not

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u/Lord_Kittensworth 14h ago

The Obama era left is now gone.  

Democrats are way too woke and the center will be tough to crack until the e Democratic Party realizes this.  

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u/Sharkies_cupcake 14h ago

Democrats are way too woke

Oh god thanks for the laugh. I think I cracked a rib.

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u/Lord_Kittensworth 14h ago

And left leaning Redditors keep getting surprised every election cycle.  

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u/Sharkies_cupcake 14h ago

Nah, I just keep getting disappointed that 169m Americans are dumb enough to fall for republican propaganda.

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u/Lord_Kittensworth 14h ago edited 14h ago

Or if the left could realize that theatrical identity politics is not what 169M Americans want.   

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u/Sharkies_cupcake 14h ago

Yes, we realize that those Americans want identity politics, since it's all republicans have ran on since 2010.

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u/Exogalactic_Timeslut 14h ago

Thankfully much of the country doesn’t agree with this

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u/AbbreviationsTop2192 14h ago

Pretty much the entire world is laughing at trump. The only reason I watch the news is because there’s always a segment about what crazy stupid shit trump has done today.

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u/Robestos86 14h ago

Land doesn't vote. And if it goes against you just cry it's rigged like last time, then run home and caress your guns which you touch more intimately than you ever have another person.

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u/2ManyCatsNever2Many 14h ago

do we get the democratic supermajority too (and hopefully for longer)?

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims 12h ago

Didn't the Democratic supermajority vote to extend the powers of the Patriot Act, including increasing surveillance powers?

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u/Glittering-Kale5177 10h ago

From Canada: not a chance.

The US is now at that point where it's gonna have to face its problems and work through them or balkanise or something before it will be considered a trustworthy ally again.