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I graduated high school in 2015. A month later, Trump announced his campaign to be president.

3 min readMar 12, 2025

To address the GOP elephant in the room:

Yes. This summer, it will have been a decade since Trump began his successful entrance into our daily lives.

Like the most monumental ad campaign of all time, Trump established himself as a brand and took over the United States, becoming so successful, that, like any businessman: he sold his business for profit. Trump ran the nation like a business, like he said he would. This was inevitable. Somebody had to do it. He was the chosen one. He was lucky, and that’s a big trait. Everything in life is luck.

It astonishes me to think of the world pre-COVID. It feels like a different era. Yet, that is half a decade ago. Trump got big in politics twice as long. Some people are saying, believe me when I say this, he ran what was the most massive campaign there ever was. It was on immigration, a topic that is always on our minds. The country was doing well in so many ways. But there was such divisiveness.

Imagine thinking about Joe Biden right now. Do you think Joe Biden could have ever gotten this big? As big as Trump? Billions and billions of people talking about him at the same time? People everywhere. Winning the 2024 election, winning the popular vote? No way. Biden was…

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Atheist Bale
Atheist Bale

Written by Atheist Bale

I’m not a pessimist, I’m correct. Follow me for troglodyte slaying. Seriously, follow me, people. Dual BA & an MA, going on a PhD. I’m actually Agnostic btw.

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