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I seriously doubt a bunch of first-year cadets with a looming calculus exam sat around in their dorms thinking "what would Trump do?". Yours is one several comments here expressing this sentiment, and aside from what it says about your capacity for independent thought, it illustrates an inability--all too pervasive these days--to conceive of any issue in non-trumpian terms.

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Trump has set a precedent for what is acceptable behavior of public servants and the lasting damage will take decades to undo. He pardoned someone convicted of war crimes. He's convinced hundreds of sitting governors, represetnatives, and senators to openly object to and instill distrust in the integrity of elections. He's publicly questioned and disparaged the integrity of nearly every government institution from the military to intelligence agencies to the IRS.

So, yes, we're viewing this in Trumpian terms because there's a very clear link to eroding trust in government institutions.

so you blame gerald ford for the 1976 west point cheating scandal? or do you think it was a time-delayed nixon effect?

If the examples set by our leaders were irrelevant or inconsequential, we wouldn't need leaders at all, only managers.

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