bogleech:

Key difference though between the right-wing fear of Obama and everyone else’s (as well as some of the right wing’s) fear of Trump is that with Obama it was all imaginary speculative nonsense. He never took anyone’s guns and was never even going to. He never said anything to make anyone believe he was going to. Trump on the other hand actually promised to cut life-saving benefits our country can easily afford, eliminate environmental regulation that was if anything only too loose to begin with, criminalize immigrants who aren’t hurting anybody, force an entire religion to register itself on suspicion of hypothetical terrorism, overturn reproductive rights and “undo” marriage equality, just for starters.

Whether he’s capable of doing all those things isn’t the point. He said he would. They’re his own words. He is on the side of the people who want to do these objectively horrific things. Obama NEVER fucking said any of the shit conservatives were panicking over. Not any of it. Not once. He gave the nothing to actually worry about at all for eight years and Trump in just one year has directly threatened millions of innocent people in dozens of ways for no justifiable reason.