His reputation amongst his opposition could never be repaired anyways
Rationalizations and wildly broad generalizazion do not help. What they do is they allow you to dwell in the delusion that everybody who does not think like you is bad, wrong, envious and their ideas and thoughts are in one way or another unworthy of attention.
This is because you don't want to put your own idea to the test, challenge them and maybe having to change them. Basically, you are afraid that whay you think is wrong, or to discover that you do not have the simple answer to everything, that things are much more complicated than you think.
I'd like to be wrong, but I am not: I called Trump's mental illness from back before his election, because he clearly shows the same spectrum of problems Berlusconi has.
Sadly, I was right. Like I was when I said that Berlusconi was dangerous, a charismatic powerhouse with a flair for business, a penchant for money and glory and no care whatsoever for everything outside of himself and of those who flatter him.
Sadly, I was right back then too.
On Trump, your views are unrealistic. Accept it and ask yourself -why- do you still want to believe; you are not Fox Mulder and Trump is no alien, after all.
, he could cure cancer and end all wars and it wouldn't change anything.
Let's him! I would credit that to him in an instant. Can I do something to help this out?
Sadly, he won't, and you know it.
Now to you: what would you need to change your opinion on Trump and credit him as the disgrace he is? (and I repeat: it does not mean that the alternative was necessarily better)
They (and I am also looking at 95 percent of the participants in this thread) have hated him since before he was elected, nothing was gonna change that.
I do not hate him: I see who he is and I am telling everybody else since 2016. And what I said came to be. I have no superpower and I am not a seer, so anyone else could have done the same as me. This is one reason why you have difficulties accepting Trump's real person, because you could have seen it, and you haven't.
The people that were gonna vote for him 6 months ago are still gonna vote for him in a year.
This is not a good sign for democracy.
But this is exactly why I asked the americans to look themselves in the mirror and understand what happened to them to have Trump as their President. The extreme partisan divisions and all the people unable to talk to one another is dangerous and damaging in the long run. It is the same reason why disinformation, fake news, constant hate and screaming and a general continuous hate environment is damaging:
because it stops people from thinking with their own heads or allowing themselves to question themselves, what they think, what they want. I stops them from giving honest answers.
Of course, that is the same thing I ask to you: what do you want? why do you want it? What would make you change your mind? Have you ever asked yourself these questions? Because if you haven't, how can you tell you have the right answer?
Looking at the opposition and how well things are going anything except a second terms seems unthinkable.
"well"? Oh boy...
The US Power is fading, the US propulsive force is getting weaker, their influence is decreasing, they have just got into their worst international and political defeat in 20 years, and the worst image damage since 9/11. The tariffs wars will weaken everybody and widen the divide between the US and each of the other countries, the US society is angry and divided (and Trumps is furthering those divisions), the future brings no clear national objective (this is partly why isolationism is growing in consensus).
If this is "well", I hope the situation will never get so dire as to be "bad" even for you.