Did trump really think he could bamboozle everyone and take over our government?

[shraby]

Did he never hear of "you can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time. But you can never fool all of the people all of the time."

He's finding out how that works.

[beachbumbob]

1. he has so far, look at the number of federal judges being appointed for life, the dismantling of ALL

govt agencies, massive govt worker retirements (not reported). Trump and GOP have in fact been having their way since day one and don't fool ourselves that they haven't.

[Turin_C3PO]

3. Not true,

our House of Reps has been there to block any legislation he tries to get passed. Thank God for our Dems in Congress.

[beachbumbob]

4. trump been doing it all by executive order, did you miss that? The REAL damage is with the judges

and why the lesser of 2 evils crap nearly 3 years ago is even more infuriating as we could have impact for generations to come.

[brush]

5. He fooled many idiot repugs megats. Many other repugs went along to get their own agendas passed.

trump's megalomania, narcissism, selfishness and treachery knows no bounds and if he had his way it would have continued on to a fascist dictatorship in a subservient alliance with Putin and Russia but for the Democrats and other patriots.

He has done much damage, including those winger judgeships, but the pushback has begun, is gathering momentum (see the impeachment hearings with patriots stepping forward to testify in defiance of trump) and will succeed.

trump is going down. America will rid itself of this orange imposter who fancied himself an autocrat.
The country won't stand by and just let that happen.

[mucifer]

2. Dems are fighting. But, we could go down fighting. We don't know

how this ends.

It could end in a monarchy/theocracy.

[dewsgirl]

6. I worry about this daily.

[empedocles]

7. The trend is our friend, and we're fortunate to have the Speaker. Dems have

seized the media spotlight this week, despite trump's bully pulpit advantages.

For years the WH has had the key media spotlight, the trend suggests the coming months will favor the people's House of Representatives - a great thing.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Trump always thinks he's the smartest guy in the room, so I'm going with "yes"...

He did think that.

Every day I hope he is wrong.

[gratuitous]

9. I don't think he thinks that long term

He's an instant gratification kind of guy, from my observation. His usual M.O. is to just bull ahead with whatever he wants to do, and stop only when the opposition costs more than whatever reward he's pursuing. This works all right in a lot of situations as most people don't care much for confrontation, and figure it's less costly to just let the baby have his bottle.

But there is a limit, and the opposition is getting sufficiently organized that even some media outlets are treating opposition to Needy Amin seriously. We need to keep building momentum.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. TBF he kind of has (both)

Not fully, but he's gotten along pretty well so far.