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our constitution, which assumes gentlemanly conduct, struggles to cope.
Which did involve quite some hypocrisy of excusing "gentlemen" for really shitty things, but was still better than Trump/Johnson.
But there has always been a tendency for people to say the current politicians are not as good / honest, etc as the ones when I was younger - apparently this goes back forever.
Like people complaining of "the youth of today", or the old conservative myth of an idyllic past that progressives are destroying. So I avoid it. The post-war consensus was better than what came before; it's destruction was started by conservatives who believed in that "green fields of Old England" myth, only to be destroyed themselves by people like Johnson. Trump isn't uniqely bad as U.S. presidents go (Andrew Johnson was right up there with him on the toxic shit scale), but he is worse than most of what came in between. Saying that isn't nostalgia.
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Yes, good to acknowledge that good things have been done by politicians.
And I agree Johnson / Trump seem to have a psychopathic disregard for the truth which previous politicians did not - and our constitution, which assumes gentlemanly conduct, struggles to cope.
But there has always been a tendency for people to say the current politicians are not as good / honest, etc as the ones when I was younger - apparently this goes back forever.