User:Buster7/Sandbox-2018 in History

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 * What will History say

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 * "My crowd was bigger"
 * Falsely claims electoral college victory as a landslide
 * Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during campaign, 03/20/17 //Justice Department: No evidence Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, 09/02/2017
 * further falsely claims that "serious voter fraud" led to losing in NHAM, VIRG and CAL.


 * Falsely claims that 3–5 million illegal votes cost him the popular vote. Kris Kobach launches the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, July 24, 2017. Disbanded in Jan, 2018
 * Ponders investigation into alleged voter fraud from the 2016 presidential election.
 * DT asks Comey to pledge loyalty and Comey declines.
 * FBI interviews George Papadopoulos about meetings with Russians in 2016.
 * Steve Bannon is appointed the Assistant to the President and Chief Strategist


 * Charlottesville
 * Several onetime associates are indicted for financial crimes
 * results of the midterm election
 * three government shutdowns during his term
 * migrant children are separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border
 * Meetings with Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin
 * the Brett Kavanaugh/Doctor Ford hearings
 * 13 federal agencies issue a dire climate change report that the WH attempts to bury.

The end of American exceptionalism

 * By 2018 the global economy was enriching a few and consigning the many to ill-paid jobs.
 * Social media undermined free elections and fanned the flames of hate and division via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
 * The late 20th-century ideal of a world moving toward universal human rights and the eradication of poverty crumbled under the weight of terrorist attacks, civil wars, massive displaced populations, and environmental disasters such as droughts, wildfires, hurricanes and floods.
 * Enemies of democracy joined with reactionaries to embrace authoritarian "strong men" who vowed to "bring order out of chaos and restore nations to their mythical former glory".


 * Many Americans seemed willing to accommodate themselves to the casual destruction of values and institutions that the country had long claimed were proof of its own "exceptionalism".
 * Mocked the principle of a free press, calling journalists "the enemies of the people",
 * saw DoJ as personal law firm,
 * dismissed truth and facts as standard currency in political discourse,
 * openly ridiculed people of color as "low-IQ individuals",
 * called for the jailing of political opponents,
 * took credit for the stock market (when it was up) and blamed the head of the Federal Reserve (when it was down),
 * cozied up to dictators,
 * prioritized money and arms deals over human life,
 * scorned science and declared climate change a "hoax".
 * Though erratic, petulant and willfully ignorant, the most powerful Republican lawmakers were terrified that someday they might get "primaried".

Republican control

 * Since 1981, with the election of Ronald Reagan, Republican leaders have tried to remove New Deal-era government policies that regulated business, protected social welfare and promoted improvement of the infrastructure.
 * Congress has slashed taxes for the very wealthy, while the administration gutts government regulation and tries to abolish the Affordable Care Act. Fights redistribution of money from white men to undeserving minorities,
 * Attacks on minorities escalate. Immigrants are called terrorists and children are incarcerated in camps. At least two perish.


 * Senate confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Birth of Republican Party

 * November 4 – U.S. presidential election, 1856: James Buchanan defeats former President Millard Fillmore. Fillmore represents a coalition of "Know-Nothings" and Whigs along with John C. Frémont of the fledgling Republican Party who revolt against the Democratic Party’s control of the federal government in the interests of wealthy Southern slaveholders (prompted the birth of the Republican Party).
 * Before Lincoln's inauguration, seven slave states declared secession and formed the Confederacy. American Civil War began on April 12, 1861 with attack on Fort Sumter. In 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

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 * This is our reality now