However holding the position of the most powerful person in the universe is not just happening to start a new job.Tortoise wrote: ↑Sun Nov 29, 2020 1:59 pmSo Trump didn’t call anyone names prior to your voting for him in 2016? Seems to me like Trump has been Trump his whole life.Cortopassi wrote: ↑Sun Nov 29, 2020 10:50 am I will state what Vinny and pmward just did: Character Matters. It's on a banner as well on the grade school just down the street (Character Counts). The banner does not say to call everyone names and losers who disagrees with you.
I think at one point you mentioned that you sort of held your nose when you voted for Trump in 2016 and hoped he might decide to change his crude manners and become more “presidential” after he took office in 2017.
People don’t suddenly change their characters after over 70 years of life just because they happen to start a new job. I suspect that deep down, you felt that you were voting for a guy with little character, so what you were really hoping would change would be the window dressing, not the man’s character.
But the window dressing didn’t change, so you became a never-Trumper.
Almost all politicians lack real character when you get down to it. So we tend to vote based on policy, window dressing, or both.
The actual Republicans holding office all thought he would do the proverbial "growing into the job".
Almost all people thought he would stop tweeting once he became president.
In other words, a lot of people thought he would act "presidential" once he became president.
Instead, as you describe (with hindsight) he did not change one bit. When you voted for him is that what you expected?
Vinny