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People always say this yet trump is uniquely evil and shows it daily.
I mean, he's not not uniquely evil, but have you looked at the people around him? Your Spehen Millers, Tom Homans, and so on. There's evil alternatives.
It's not a coincidence that Stephen Miller and all these other evil fucks associate with one another. If Trump is just another bad politician we probably wouldn't notice that literally everything he does is evil and everything evil is connected to him also. Tell me, if he's just a symptom, which of the other US politicians is Putin friendly with? Certainly no Democrat I've heard of, at minimum.
You can play that same game with any dictator from around the world. They all love trump and you'd be hard pressed to find other US politicians they would publicly swoon over.
I'll give you a non-US example - Mutti Merkel and Putin were pretty close. But I think the reverse is more informative - that these kinds of conditions tend to prop up ugly figures around the world. E.g. Nigel Farage in the UK. Geert Wilders in The Netherlands. Pierre Poilievre* in Canada. Etc. This isn't random. The typical policies that arise as a solution to wealth inequality that don't tackle inequality tend to be about finding scape goats and turning society against them. Now what kind of person does it take to either honestly believe that some part of society should be repressed, or doesn't but works to convice people to hate for a living? It tends to not be the empathetic, nice kind.
* Oh god Pierre is a truly disgusting human being.
Merkel famously hated Putin. They worked together, for better or for worse, but she did not personally like him. She has a phobia of dogs and he’s a dog lover, which she would have obviously been fine, but he brought a large dog to one of their meetings after her office had requested otherwise, which she felt was an attempt to intimidate her.