30th August 2017, 9:42 PM
Yeah, that's also really bad. The two are similar in a way -- both are things that have been getting worse over time in recent years/decades, but that Trump is making significantly worse as fast as he can. But we wouldn't be doing anything even remotely near close enough to what would be needed to to actually slow down climate change. Making a bad situation even worse is a big problem when we are at a point where we badly need to make serious actions on climate change, but the damage he has done to America's political system is worse compared to where we were when he started running for President, I think. I mean, yes, he's a complete climate change denier, but all he's done are make a lot of cabinet and executive order-level decisions that can easily be changed. I don't know if we can wait that long, but again it's not like a Democrat would actually do what's needed either...
But our political system? He has built on the Republican Party's move towards anti-democratic measures and amped them up. Maybe we can recover from this, actually have two parties again, not have an avowed white supremacist in the White House, etc, etc, but it sets a very bad precedent for the future. I think that our democracy can survive this, but Trump is testing that.
Of course, side effects of catastrophic climate change will test that as well (storms like Harvey are becoming more common after all), so yeah, both of these are really bad.
But our political system? He has built on the Republican Party's move towards anti-democratic measures and amped them up. Maybe we can recover from this, actually have two parties again, not have an avowed white supremacist in the White House, etc, etc, but it sets a very bad precedent for the future. I think that our democracy can survive this, but Trump is testing that.
Of course, side effects of catastrophic climate change will test that as well (storms like Harvey are becoming more common after all), so yeah, both of these are really bad.