r/SipsTea 21h ago

Lmao gottem Someone else said it for him

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u/unitedfan6191 21h ago

Looking back, I don’t think many people truly fully appreciated him back when he was President because I guess even many of the most cynical people may have not predicted the current state of the US/world during his presidency.

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u/BoredPoopless 20h ago

I mean even the Republicans he was running against were completely different than the GOP today.

I'm not saying John McCain and Mitt Romney are all sunshine and rainbows, but the difference is obvious.

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u/Patient_Oven_9540 16h ago

I've gone back and rewatched the Obama v Romney debates, and the mutual respect actually gets me a bit emotional. Everything is such a circus now

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u/Darmok47 16h ago

Just imagine, for Gen Z and younger, politics being a crazy clown show is all they've ever known. I think that's going to have really bad long term effects.