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Trump will be remembered for single-handedly inaugurating a new era of American politics, expanding American power (including over Greenland, Venezuela, Iran / the Middle East, etc.), a fundamental shift in the Western Hemisphere / Munroe Doctrine, a fundamental shift in the power of the Presidency and the Executive branch, inaugurating a new American military-industrial build-out that includes presiding over SpaceX / AI / Golden Dome, initiating the largest crackdown on immigration in a Western country in 50 years and possibly heralding the beginning of Remigration, and, ultimately, will enter historical memory as a great hero of America and the West. It's too late now, this stuff is all baked in, whatever you're reading in the newspaper is going to be forgotten. Trump's impact on the English Language alone will be the most consequential contribution since Shakespeare. History is not going to remember even things that feel very consequential to you. Who won the 1942 midterm elections? How does the war in Nicaragua affect public perception of President Taft?
Hitler is a good comparison for these purposes. If you were talking to someone and they said, "Hitler was just a retard who made retarded decisions based on retarded mental models," does that tell you more about Hitler, or about your friend? History is quite unfavorable to Hitler, but it's not as unfavorable as that. If someone tried passing this off as a serious opinion about Hitler in a serious historical discussion, you would roll your eyes. It's a waste of everyone's time.
Note that when I call Trump "a hero to the West," you don't have to actually like Trump, you don't have to accept Trump uncritically. But history is a lot bigger than whatever people are talking about today. It's far likelier in fact that future history will judge you (us) more harshly than it will judge Trump.
Almost any big decision Hitler took after the fall of France was retarded and backfired quite well.
I like Trump. He is amazing at identifying problems and terrible at actually solving them. He lacks the willpower, consistency and persistence to use any of the crises he has started to something fruitful for the usa.
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