The Blue no matter who thing is how you got here. It’s not a good strategy to always be like ‘the other guy is literally Hitler’, also, we’ll copy some of Hitler’s border policies, and we’ll go on the campaign trail with some of the people that enabled the previous guy that we called Hitler.

If you want to get people that aren’t just committed democrats to vote for you, you need to offer them something, don’t just say the other choice is worse.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/24/obama-guantanamo-bay-closure-republicans

It was definitely something he ran on, and Obama even signed an executive order to do it.

You had 2 Democratic presidents since it opened. It’s a legitimate criticism. Trump is using existing infrastructure that could’ve been dismantled.

Same with the patriot act and surveillance state: the thing that we warned everyone about is going to happen: the President has a ridiculous amount of power that is going to be abused (even more) now. But the bipartisan consensus was that terrorism was worth giving up your rights and privacy for.

Do you live in one of the 7 states where that even mattered?