He's always been a thug and con artist, as well as a great actor who deserves an Oscar. No doubt about that. As for the whole colluding with Putin to bring about the 4th Reich, I agree with you. That's just preposterous.
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I’m open-minded he’ll potentially do some good actually, but yeah, the issue isn’t whether someone disagrees with that, but whether they’re in a cult.
Honestly, he probably will. He loves being praised by the public and, for someone like that, that should be enough of an incentive for them to make some beneficial (and possibly short-term) changes to the current fragile infrastructure that is the US government. Some are, without a doubt, in the Trump cult but that's no different from any other president. So, nothing is new there. Max-normies will always max-normie. And you are right to be worried about the deportation situation and even more worried about the fact that people don't care (or are completely ignorant) of the fact that he's overstepping constitutional rights. But... hey, let the empire fall. They all do eventually.
Of course he'll do some good. He already has. Roe versus Wade has been overturned and the crypto criminalization has been rolled back and he finally free Ross.