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Another reminder of the first time Trump ran: he ran on fixing the healthcare system, of respecting LGBTQ+, of making America great again.
He ran on platitudes.
His inaugural speech, however, focused on an America that was a Mad Max dystopia.
@feloneouscat I remember some of his other promises more clearly.
Like how globalisation was a huge threat to the country, and how he was going to return manufacturing to the US. (He didn't.)
He also declared that the US military was nearly out of ammunition (which is pure silliness), and he pledged to make sure that didn't happen.
He's a living Gish gallop. Everything he says is a different kind of untrue, but feeds and is fed by people's insecurity, so it *feels* true.