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I changed my mind on it a bit when Biden popped up; I realised so much of what was funny/poked fun at in Trump were traits of Biden's (albeit less exaggerated perhaps) too, that really it's just a certain sort of American and sure maybe Trump's a bit of a caricature of it but it made him a bit less uniquely crazy how on Earth did that happen in my eyes.

Like Jeremy Corbyn's pretty far left wing, but politics aside he had a chance at being PM of the UK for a bit; maybe he would've seemed like a strange bumbling old man in other parts of the world, but here he's a recognisable type of person if you see what I mean, not massively unusual.

I just ended up thinking it was an attack on his (Trump's) character; that it worked so well outside of the USA because it's an unfamiliar one. But that's not fair, could even be called racist, and isn't on the basis of anything meaningful like actual policy etc. - which I know next to nothing about and seldom saw anything of substance reported on it; so I just disengaged from it really.



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