A Year Ago...

[WiffenPoof]

...when you thought about what a Trump Administration would be like, is it about what you thought it would be, worse than you thought or better than you thought?

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[2naSalit]

1. It is definitely

what I expected.

[Yonnie3]

2. Good question!

I hadn't thought about it in these terms, as the day to day stuff is staggering.

It is as bad or slightly worse than I thought it would be, but it is different than I thought it would be. I thought he would quiet down with the dog whistles and attacks. He would then go about enriching himself and buddies on the down low.

In the end it has the same effect, but has an added "screw you" to American Citizens and legal residents, as well as the world at large.

[hedda_foil]

3. I explained it but every brick pulled out of the structure of democracy still shocks me.

[GreenEyedLefty]

4. About the same as I thought.

But I woke up the morning after the election with a pit in my stomach that hasn't really gone away.

I was hoping our national parks and public lands would escape his notice, I was wrong. The budget is terrifying to me because it defunds the national wildlife refuge fund and also opens up sensitive areas to oil and gas exploration. We need our public lands and must preserve them at all costs.

[GreenEyedLefty]

5. There is a silver lining, though.

People are waking up, people are finally tuning in to how government works and how it affects them. I think this will translate to a blue revolution in 2018, if we can just get up more times than we are knocked down.

[dalton99a]

6. Same or worse - just as many predicted

[Javaman]

7. pretty much what I expected...

and quite frankly, I expected worse, but it's not over yet.

[logosoco]

8. It is as bad as I expected, but in a shorter time frame than I thought.

But I feel like with the things Mueller and the FBI are doing there is something to hold onto. I don't remember there being anything like that during the W years. I do think this "administration" is doing more wide and long lasting damage than the W admin. did.

[Wounded Bear]

9. I'm rather impressed with the Dems ability to resist...

but other than that, it's about what I expected.

[GoCubsGo]

10. About the same.

I figured it would be at least this bad, if not worse. Although, we probably are not aware of just how bad it has been. I doubt we're being told everything.