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This is the kind of thing I mean when I say, we won't be able to fix the damage being done in our lifetime.

The fundamental mistrust of our country and government being created right now, in mere weeks, will not go away, even if we manage to weather four years of this. Trump is only doing one thing effectively, and that is destroy America's standing both inside and outside of the country, but the damage is so much deeper than we can process.

And Russia is the only country in the world benefiting from that right now. So I also am going to make a prediction. Once America is fully gutted, potentially in civil war, and a nightmarish dystopia, Putin will reveal he was manipulating Trump all along, probably by allowing a leak of some of the secret communications Trump has had with Putin, with Trump inevitably making outright treasonous statements. We'll all already know it was happening, but Putin will then gain one last trophy from Trump: confirming to the world he was able to manipulate and destroy the most powerful nation.

It's why Putin uses trademark assassination methods, like polonium tea. He wants everyone to know he did it, and he got away with it. It's why Trump is dropping the facade of democracy now that he has power, because he's mimicking Putin.