Trump went from the “because you’d be in jail” guy I loved to this “letting Hillary get away with her crimes is barely scratching the surface of everything I can do to fuck the concepts of law and justice”

So what happened to my fellow supporters? I’m still here but it’s like all the others vaporized? Or I was the only one the whole time, but then why would Trump lie for my support when my one vote wasn’t gonna decide that first election?

This seems really weird

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    NY where I lived at the time appears to be the most media-covered case with the voter registrations - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/officials-investigating-why-126000-voters-were-purged-from-ny-rolls

    I personally knew someone that went to vote in the primary and was told he couldn’t because they deleted his voter registration.

    If “no reasonable prosecutor” would charge Hillary for mishandling classified material, that seems like it’s because everyone in the White House always does it. Hence why it would make sense to imagine Trump ultimately landing on a compromise of “you get away with it because you were before me, but we’re closing the loopholes so nobody else can get away with it again.” Instead, he seems to have just done all the same shit Hillary did, and more.

    I did think Trump cared about some idea of law or order or justice back then. I still think he’s “honest” by politician standards, in the sense that he sometimes gets a kick telling the truth while leaving lies to a hint - e.g. he’ll say “carbon footprints are a hoax created by big oil” and only imply the part about how he wants you to believe that means we should burn more carbon. I still find that interesting, but not enough to forgive him turning into a less drugged version of Hitler. He still just blatantly lies plenty of other times, like any politician (he was supposed to not be one of)

    I think I’d be pretty dead set on starting my own third split off place if the country did split. I find Republican and Democrat policies unlivable, so it would probably seem like an opportunity to get away. But the fight would then be trying to make sure people from red and blue land are allowed to migrate to ours while the red and blue land owners would increasingly try to lock everyone into wherever they were born