"Even if it was just campaign rhetoric, I expect better. Besides there was plenty in his past that had absolutely nothing to do with his campaign which was disgusting enough to know this guy was a piece of shit. Anyone who "gave him a chance" is either wholly ignorant or an idiot. The "grab em by the pussy." The racial discrimination suits The story of him assaulting his wife All the stuff his ghostwriter said about him The Central Park 5 and his complete lack of refusal to acknowledge he was wrong The BIRTHERISM BULLSHIT? HELLO? And if we are in the land of writing off "I prefer people who weren't captured" and "who cares about gold star families" as mere "campaign rhetoric" then fuck this entire country. Seriously. Just fuck the country. Or rather, we're already fucked if people can honestly think that way. We deserve it too. Is it possible he wouldn't have turned out to be a colossal fuck up? Sure. In the same way it's possible for me to hook up with Alison Brie. It's a non-zero chance. But anyone who considers it a realistic possibility, FOR THE MOST POWERFUL JOB ON THE PLANET, needs to be taken out back and beaten raw because they're too dumb to function." - a gilded, deleted post I was attempting to reply to

So much this. I was posting and speaking criticism of Trump in advance of the Iowa caucus (I'm a D in Iowa). I mean he's been in the public eye for decades and made a complete ass of himself on the political scene with that birther shit.