During 18 years in Mexico I've been to all 31 states and the capital, but I've never once seen a "taco bowl."
— AlGiordano (@AlGiordano) May 6, 2016
Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics! https://t.co/ufoTeQd8yA pic.twitter.com/k01Mc6CuDI
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 5, 2016
This is a man who eats pizza with a knife and fork. I guess slices and tacos are too big for his tiny hands. https://t.co/QnCfExjPwa
— AlGiordano (@AlGiordano) May 6, 2016
I had to triple-check to make sure this wasn't from a parody account. https://t.co/pn83FdPe4D
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) May 5, 2016
It was aimed at his racist base. It was mocking of Mexican-Americans. Pretty much the equivalent of blackface. https://t.co/Gavesy0u0L
— AlGiordano (@AlGiordano) May 6, 2016
Mai.naem.mobile
Next he’ll be sucking out of a 7-11 44oz Slurpee and saying he loves Pakistanis. Idiot.
gf120581
So, anyone want to guess the percentage of Hispanic voters Trump gets in the end? High single digits? Low single digits? Negative digits?
Keep in mind, the GOP has to win at least 40% of the Hispanic vote to have a chance at victory.
Mitt’s 27% is going to look immense next to Trumps.
gf120581
@Mai.naem.mobile: Or munching on Popeye’s and a big slice of watermelon and saying how much he loves The Blacks.
Villago Delenda Est
No one on his staff has the basic intestinal fortitude to tell him “you can’t do this if you actually want to be President, no matter how high Hillary’s negatives are.”
So perhaps he doesn’t want to be President? This is all just a very elaborate, prolonged ratfuck of the GOP?
? Martin
@Mai.naem.mobile:
That would be a 9-11.
gf120581
@srv: How would you know? You’re a troll. All you eat are goats and the odd hobbit.
amk
wonder which of his latino bidness partners ratfucked him so hard that he has a 24×7 butthurt against them.
Anne Laurie
@Villago Delenda Est:
Trump doesn’t think that far in advance. He wants to beat that bitch Hillary, show the Kenyan Usurper who’s really in charge, prove to everyone (including the ghost of his old man) that he is a Winner Who Wins by winning the biggest prize available to a middle-aged white American male with no particular physical or mental talents. What happens the day after the Winning, that’s not something he’s worried about — any more than a crooked real estate developer worries about what’s gonna happen when the marks who bought his time share condos discover the building is crumbling, the units are unrentable, and the neighborhood has just been declared a Superfund site. It won’t be his problem any more! (as he understands it).
Redshift
@Villago Delenda Est: I really think he doesn’t know. And he’s incapable of learning anything that would help him run, because no one has ever said no to him, and he’s convinced he’s a genius who already knows everything.
Wag
@amk:
My money is on all of them.
Ripley
Donald Trump isn’t even suitable to be president of his own mouth.
The Other Chuck
“blackface” would require at least a little awareness of the culture. No, this is just “Cinco, trump, tacos, trump, me, trump, tasty, trump, mexicans, trump LOL LOL LOL LOL”
Trump has the intellectual heft of a fucking oxy-snorting internet troll. He’s racist to the core, yes, but he doesn’t have the mental capacity for genuine calculated cutting bigotry.
patroclus
“Taco bowls” are Tex-Mex, not Mexican, and they’re made for gringo tote-baggers who want a fancy salad. I like them, but I’m not running for President and trying to appeal to voters and I don’t want to build a frikkin wall for $10 billion (and another $25 billion per year on the roads and maintenance) in the middle of Big Bend National Park for no reason whatsoever, I don’t think all Mexicans are rapists, I think Obama was born in Hawaii and I don’t want to deport 11 million abuelitas and children.
starscream
Obama would push 60% vs this monster. Term limits are trash. Eight years is nothing in the span of human history.
The Other Chuck
@starscream: As long as an entire branch of government is headed by a single person, term limits for that branch make quite a bit of sense.
NR
Okay, I agree with this guy on basically nothing, but I have to admit this tweet was pretty epic:
https://twitter.com/BenSasse/status/727998884543221761
trollhattan
Sweet rompin’ Ronny Reagan on a Roomba, can Penn State look any worse? If you said “yes” go for that third cabernet.
patroclus
@NR: Yeah, O’Donnell and company were really pushing Ben Sasse tonight. I think it’s a real possibility.
bystander
All that said, you have to admit the deformity of his tiny thumb sticking up makes you much more sympathetic to the burden borne by Melonia, Ivahnna et al.
starscream
@The Other Chuck: why, and why eight years? I personally think that the overwhelmingly best candidate already has the job. Why can’t I vote for him again? (Genuinely would like to hear arguments against it.) Some issues, like terrorism or climate change, take much longer than 8 years to solve.
pseudonymous in nc
Drinko de puko, the American festival of tequila and bad ‘Mexican’ food.
I think Dave Roberts’s piece at Vox was pretty decent: the American political media in general are invested in the idea of a close contest and so they’ll put their thumb down to make a close contest even if that means pretending that El Trumpador is a credible candidate or shitting from a great height on Hillary Clinton. Because that’s now their business model. The era of a hopeless Mondale or Dukakis (note: both Dems) is long gone.
That’s to say, the Dem election campaign has to be directed straight towards the broadcast media who want to contrive a contest, not towards El Trumpador himself.
amk
@trollhattan:
free marketz!!! at work. gotta love it.
Kropadope
@srv: I may have this way wrong, being a white Euro-mutt from MA; but aren’t Hispanics European Spanish people and Mexican people “chicano?”
The Other Chuck
@starscream: Because four years, because Arbitrary Historical Decisions are arbitrary. Personally I think three terms would have been better, but I’m willing to live with two. A strong executive means it it really has to be limited though. And some issues take generations to fix … and more than one person. I’d rather our political culture focused on continuity of policy rather than continuity of the ruler. As it is, it focuses on identity politics on one end and bullshit cable news “analysis” of the latest shiny object on the other, but that is at least equally the fourth estate’s fault as much as the second’s. hashtag #ourfailedmediaexperiment
RandomMonster
Chinese New Year and some sweet and sour pork at Panda Express! Thankfully the election will end before Chinese New Year 2017.
patroclus
@Kropadope: Mexicans are people from Mexico, which includes those of Spanish and other European descent, mestizos (those who have a mixture of European and native descent) and native Mexicanos (those of native descent). Mexican-Americans are those who live in the U.S. but descend from ancestors who lived in Mexico. If you go way back, those of “native” descent are really from Asia/Polynesia. Hispanics is a much broader term and usually means people from virtually all of the Central American and South American countries, and those who descend from people who live in Central and South America, wherever they now live. But all of those other countries have people who are of European/Spanish descent, have mixed ancestry or are native too, so the term is never exactly precise.
The Other Chuck
@pseudonymous in nc: Actually, I’m enthralled by the idea of the media outlets competing with each other to see who can shit on Trump the most. This guy actually threatens journalists with violence. This might be one-sided even in the media.
Kropadope
@patroclus: OK, I’ll just chalk that up to stupid things one learns in high school Spanish class.
Luthe
@Kropadope: Hispanic = anyone from, or a descendent of a person from, a Spanish speaking country.
Latinx = anyone from, or a descendent of a person from, a country in Latin America.
So people from Spain = Hispanic, but people from Brazil != Hispanic. People from Spain != Latinx, but people from Brazil = Latinx
It’s complicated, ve says from ver Hispanic and Latinx perch
The Other Chuck
@Luthe: Just say “brown”, it’s all the same to wingnuts. Otherwise, it’s the fact that they speak Spanish. Except for those that speak Portuguese.
I got a novel label you can use: people
Bill E Pilgrim
@Kropadope: I think at this point Hispanics is a term used to describe recurring emotional states experienced by Paul Ryan or any other GOP official since about January.
Kropadope
@Bill E Pilgrim: No, no, that’s hysteric
ETA: Why does that term remind me of a medical procedure?
Bill E Pilgrim
@Kropadope: His panics.
AKA panic disorder. AKA a normal reaction to The Donald as the likely nominee.
Kropadope
@Bill E Pilgrim: Oh, I get it
Mary G
I think it’s actually a tostada, no?
We are having a massive rain squall right now in our corner of SoCal, yay.
Villago Delenda Est
@The Other Chuck:
Let’s not get all carried away here!
amk
will donnie usher in the apartheid amurkkka era?
Villago Delenda Est
@Kropadope: Because “hysteria” has something to do with the female reproductive system.
Kropadope
@Villago Delenda Est: That’s fucked up.
Bill E Pilgrim
@Kropadope: It’s no coincidence that the one word reminds you of the other, by the way.
ETA: What VDE said.
EATA: more
Tom Q
@pseudonymous in nc: Actually, to be fair, though anyone with a smidgen of political knowledge knew for months that Reagan would stomp Mondale, the press did a fair job after their first debate — where Reagan showed major hints of the Alzheimer’s to come — of pretending the whole election could be turned around on that one event. I think they’ve always tried to make it as much of a story as they could.
Kropadope
@Bill E Pilgrim: That’s beyond fucked up.
NotMax
@Luthe
Well, Brazil is not a Spanish-speaking country.
AxelFoley
@The Other Chuck:
Disagree. No term limits are worse for Judicial Branch. We get stuck with someone like Scalia for 30+ years.
Bill E Pilgrim
@Kropadope: Yes just one of the infinite number of items that so blatantly contradict the Reaganesque, Brooksian, “let’s just go back to the past when everything was better” silliness.
SoupCatcher
@Kropadope:
As an American of Mexican descent, albeit with Southern California roots going back a century and a half, I prefer the term Chicano.
Kropadope
@Bill E Pilgrim: When everything was better except, you know, everything.
Bill E Pilgrim
@NotMax: ! means “not”.
Possibly you knew that. But so Luthe is just explaining why Brazil is not considered Hispanic, since as you say, it’s not a Spanish speaking country.
jl
I can’t figure out what Trump thinks he’s doing. I just hope he keeps it up, whatever it is.
Kropadope
@SoupCatcher: I knew I didn’t totally imagine that, even if my attribution wasn’t quite right.
patroclus
@SoupCatcher: Por que, Holmes? Soy de Tejas, y prefiero Tejano.
max
@Kropadope: I may have this way wrong, being a white Euro-mutt from MA; but aren’t Hispanics European Spanish people and Mexican people “chicano?”
Hispanic is a generic term for people descended from Spanish-speakers. (That doesn’t include Brazilians who speak Portuguese – they come under either ‘Latin-Americans’ or ‘South Americans’.) Mexicans can be ‘white’ (more European ancestry than Native American ancestry) or they can be ‘dark’ (more Native American ancestry). People from descended from people who settled around the Red River before 1800 or so consider themselves ‘Spanish’. People descended from later immigrants from Mexico are Mexican-Americans, unless they’re Mexican-Mexicans. (Mexican is both a term for a nationality and a slang term for Hispanics who live in the Southwest who are mostly of Mexican ancestry.)
So, people from Honduras are Hondurans, Central Americans, and Hispanics and may also be ‘white’ or ‘dark’. In the latter case they tend to be of Mayan ancestry. They aren’t Chicanos, but they are Latinos or Latinas.
None of them are Cubans, who are also not Mexicans, but ARE Latinos or Latinas (depending on which definition you use) and also Hispanic, but usually refer to themselves as ‘Cubans’ to differentiate from Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans, etc.
People who immigrate here from Spain and become citizens are Spanish-Americans and also Hispanics but not Chicanos or Latino(a)s.
A further wrinkle: some people from Mexico or Guatemala or such have an Amerindian language as their primary language, so strictly speaking they might be Mexican (mainly Mexica/Nuhuatl folks) or Guatemalan (mainly the Maya) but they aren’t Hispanic, and depending on how sticky you want to be might or might not be considered Latin Americans, but they would be Central Americans. They are definitively not Latino(a)s or Chicanos. The same problem occurs with Brazil where there are both Spanish speakers (Hispanic and Brazilian and South American) and various Amerindian tribes (Amerindian and Brazilian and South American).
Got all that? It’s a little complicated.
max
[‘Third overtime!’]
NotMax
@starscream
Cuts both ways. Kept Reagan (and Dubya) from seeking a third term.
Why 8 years? Mostly because that was the precedent set by Washington (rejecting calls to run again) and adhered to by tradition until FDR.
patroclus
And, of course, there really isn’t a “Spanish” language – there are instead Spanish languages. Most speak and learn “castellano” and virtually everywhere but Mexico and the U.S. refer to it that way, but most Americans don’t really know that and like the metric system, it seems unlikely that Americans will ever change their ways.
SoupCatcher
@patroclus: So are you from the portion of Tejas that acknowledges the existence of breakfast burritos, or insists on calling them breakfast tacos?
Kropadope
@max: Eh, I’ll just stick with names and nationalities, if known, and avoid that catchall terms unless I know a specific person likes to identify as such. Which is really what I preferred to begin with.
But all that, oy.
Villago Delenda Est
@patroclus: When I was on TDY in Honduras for six months, I had an SFC working for me who was from Puerto Rico. He was adrift with the local language as much as I was.
patroclus
@SoupCatcher: I like food that tastes good, regardless of what its called. When I’m back home in Tejas, I speak Texan and bastardize every single proper Mexican name you can think of. When I visit Mexico, I try to use the real Mexican names and eat real Mexican food although I invaribly get it wrong. Here in Chicago, it doesn’t seem to matter because the difference between Tex-Mex and Mexican really isn’t that big of a deal.
jl
It is possible that Trump views all population groups the same way, so this is not insulting cartoonish ethnic tokenism, and it is not ratfucking. it’s just how Trump thinks about everybody.
For example, we could see a tweet from Trump with a pic of him stuffing Tastykake butterscotch krimpets down his gullet, and: “I love the Scotch. A little on the thrifty side but they gave the world the really great game of golf.”
And, something like that would definitely keep ‘Scots-Irish pride’ Webb off the ticket, maybe.
NotMax
@Bill E Pilgrim
Have seen /= and also =/=, but never before !=.
Perfectly good ≠ sign exists.
It’s all arbitrary, anyway. Those from English-speaking Guyana or Belize and Dutch speakers from Surinam are Latin-American, but English speakers from Trinidad and Tobago or Spanish speakers from Cuba are Carribbean-Americans or Cuban-Americans, respectively.
Redshift
FYI, tonight SpaceX brought down a first stage from a geosynchronous satellite launch (meaning it started the landing going twice as fast as the previous one) and successfully landed it on the first try!
Kropadope
@NotMax: The “!=” I see mainly in computer languages, though I’m not sure that’s where it originaTED.
patroclus
@Villago Delenda Est: Same for me. When I’m among “Spanish” speaking Texans or Chicagoans, I’m told that I have a very good accent and I can comprehend virtually everything said. When I visit Mexico it’s similar but not quite as easy. I’ve visited Argentina and it’s Greek to me. Chile the same. Venezuela a little better. Actually, even though they speak Portugeese, they understand me fine (in castellano) in Brazil. I was once on a tour in Taiwan with a very heavily-accented Chinese guide whom I could barely understand in English. There were two castellano speakers from the Canary Islands who could speak English fairly well, but they were utterly lost in understanding her and they looked very glum and bored. I started translating into castellano for them and they brightened up and loved the whole tour thereafter – especially because the guide kept saying “very beautiful” and I would say “Es muy bonita” and they would just laugh and laugh.
Bill E Pilgrim
@NotMax: In JavaScript, for example.
Anyway that’s why I mentioned it, thought maybe that hadn’t gotten across. L was just saying that that’s why they’re not called Hispanic, generally.
Luthe
@NotMax: I’m learning Python right now, so I’ve got == and != on the brain. Also, != is faster to type than =/= (and looks less like an emoji). /lazy
JGabriel
Al Giordano via Anne Laurie @ Top:
Oh shit, Al’s right. Trump is running as a conservative parody of a liberal parody of a conservative.
Think about it: if, before this tweet, SNL had done a parody of Trump’s showing how much he loves Mexicans by eating in a Taco Bell, we’d have thought it was hilarious. This Tweet is Trump version, mocking his mockers and critics, too – in addition to mocking Mexican-Americans, as Al Giordano rightly points out.
This is dangerous. It’s almost kind of brilliant. It means using ridicule and mocking as election tactics against Trump is going to have unpredictable effects and may backfire at times. We need to be wary of underestimating him.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
!= is from the C programming language (and others).
I was going to say that <> is perfectly acceptable, probably better known to laypersons and doesn’t require the keyboard gymnastics for ≠, but FYWP eats it as HTML code delimiters.
jl
@JGabriel: You are over thinking yourself into incoherence.
How the hell is it dangerous if Trump pulls idiotic stunts like this? You saying that it is dangerous to point out that Trump says offensive ignorant and incoherent, poorly thought out trash, because he will run off and do something weird like this?
Most Latinos and Hispanics are going to be offended or think the guy is a fool, and most other normal people, including Non-Hispanic Whites are going to think the guy is a fool too. Some might vote for him anyway, but many of them will admit that the guy is in some ways a fool, but we need a guy like him, warts and all right now. But I don’t see any double backflip irony ricohet threat to Democrats from Trump’s offensive and ignorant (edit: and silly, I forgot to mention silly) nonsense.
sinnedbackwards
@NotMax: And FDR had the excellent excuse that it was an extraordinarily unprecedented time. To all but the myopic, the War had started. Changing Presidents during .a war was unprecedented. Two unprecedents colliding might have created a singularity. Not good.
Also too, he had already saved the country after the Depression. Plus, too, Wendell Lewis Willkie, the emasculated Donald Trump of his time.
Duh.
JGabriel
@jl:
I agree that I didn’t state what I was getting at a clearly as I like. I was coming back to add this when I saw your comment:
Hopefully, that clarifies what I’m getting at, at least a little bit.
jl:You saying that it is dangerous to point out that Trump says offensive ignorant and incoherent, poorly thought out trash, because he will run off and do something weird like this?
I’m saying it’s not poorly thought out. I’m saying it’s dangerous because we’re missing that it’s an appeal to his base, not to Hispanics.
PurpleGirl
Personal anecdote: In college I dated a Cuban guy. I went with him and a few other guys to my first science fiction convention. When I wasn’t home by 10 pm on Saturday, my mother called his mother to find out if she had any idea of where we were. My mother spoke a decently fluent Spanish so she began to speak Spanish to his mother. Anyway, they had a good conversation. A few days later he asked me where/how my mother learned Spanish. I told him my mother’s first husband was from Ecuador and she learned it from him. Manuel’s mother was surprised a New York woman spoke such a clean, Castillian Spanish and not “that Puerto Rican monkey Spanish.” Just saying.
jl
@JGabriel: OK, I have a better understanding of what you are getting at.
He may be sending a message to his bigot supporters. He may also have a side of him that is simply a irredeemably cheezy boorish fool. And there may be some of both in it.
I’m keeping an open mind.
Edit: I mean, he is also hawking some eatery in one of his classy Trump properties. That could be sign of just clueless boor to bone.
Keith G
That’s an interesting statement. I have worked in five different restaurants in two different states over a couple of decades that serve them. Right now, there are two restaurants within a 5 minute walk of my door is that are serving them,
RK
I suppose you could interpret his tweet as mocking his image as a racist, it being so over-the-top, blatantly demeaning. And I’m sure he isn’t racist because conmen don’t see race, only marks.
opiejeanne
@Keith G: He lives in Mexico City. He’s talking about states within Mexico, not the US.
SectionH
@Villago Delenda Est: No, it’s that Obama srsly dissed him at the WHCD years ago.
I’m so not joking. My 87 yr old aunt – FDR Dem to her dying day – had the ghastly WHCD dinner on whatever year it was Obama told that asshole to get stuffed. It was as beautiful to behold as that sort of thing goes (not my favorite genre) and nothing was said that wasn’t well deserved. But I focused on the Donald’s face every time they cut to it. Hate doesn’t even get started. That fucker has been in it for revenge ever since.
Keith G
@opiejeanne: Fair enough, then.
It still seems like weak sauce for an attack on Trump, and a bit self-righteous. As is already well discussed, Cinco de Mayo, itself, is an Budweiser bastardization of a calendar date not especially celebrated in Mexico.
akryan
I was absolutely gobsmacked by this tweet. I really don’t think it was a dog whistle. He has the nomination wrapped up. I really think that this was attempt to reach out to Hispanic voters. I know he’s clueless, but FFS, how did even he not realize how bad this was?
Anne Laurie
@jl:
Except Buzzfeed was called to research & discover that the Trump Tower Grille doesn’t actually serve taco bowls, so it’s not ‘advertising’. IMO Giordano is correct: He’s sending a smirky ‘joke’ out to his supporters, to demonstrate that he’s no prisoner of political correctness.
If anybody tells him about Juneteenth, he’ll no doubt tweet out a pic of him eating fried chicken & watermelon.
Aimai
@JGabriel: no its not going to backgire. Trumps racist base doesnt get bigger with every vile gesture. He is increasing the intensity they feel, but also increasing the revulsion we feel. Big turnout favors us.
Frankensteinbeck
@JGabriel: and @Anne Laurie:
I don’t buy this. I think this is exactly what it looks like on the surface, a wildly clueless bigoted asshole trying to make a bland pro-forma positive comment about a pro-multicultural holiday and fucking it up. This is Kasich’s ‘Joseph is my favorite. You know Joseph?’ in spray tan orange.
I offer two pieces of evidence: First, his campaign’s popularity is based largely on abandoning dog whistles for straight up hate speech. He doesn’t have the kind of subtle mastery you suggest. He just says the asshole bigoted thing on his mind. Second, his speeches are incoherent. He doesn’t have the kind of subtlety you suggest on any topic, much less racism. He is the moron he looks like.
Betty Cracker
@Frankensteinbeck: Yep.
Iowa Old Lady
@Frankensteinbeck: Agreed. Also I liked the way he couldn’t help swinging into marketing speech. “Trump has the best taco bowls! Get them here!”
RSA
@Steeplejack:
I first saw this in Pascal, way back when, and someone made the observation, for a different programming language, that it’s not a good match for complex numbers. :-)
pluky
@Villago Delenda Est: I’ve been watching TV5-Monde for a few months in an attempt to improve my French comprehension. A show, Unité Neuf, is great because it has subtitles. It took a few episodes to realize why a show in French on French TV would need French subtitles; it’s because the production is Canadian, and therefore might be hard for French francophones to comprehend!
HRA
Many months ago I wrote about Trump capturing all the oxygen in the atmosphere of the election process. This is just one more example of it and he did not have to spend any money for it.
Over here and in other sites it has morphed into discussions of what is Hispanic, what is a taco bowl, etc. It had me count back to how many generations of my paternal family members are in Argentina. It reminded me of my favorite taco bowl at my University I would have for lunch as a treat to myself. It is how I never expected to see discrimination of a Mexican family who wanted to buy a house next door to mine. Then I remembered my uncle who was very fluent in Spanish after living in Argentina and had been welcomed into the local Spanish club here in WNY although his roots were Eastern European.
No matter what we personally think of Trump, we have to realize we have to be afraid of him being successful.
J R in WV
@max:
In our neighborhood in SE Arizona, where we sometimes go in the winter, most of the “Hispanics” are actually Apache or Pueblo indios who got Hispanic names from some ignorant monks who wandered through with one of the conquistadors a very long time ago.
They haven’t been Mexican since the Gadsden Treaty in which IIRC Mexico ceded most of the SW to the US.
If they were Mexican then, as there was a lot of resistance to the Mexican government, just as there was to the US government. Think Cochise and Geronimo in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Among many others.
So it can be very complicated, anywhere.
Ken
@RandomMonster:
But not before Rosh Hashanah.
coin operated
@Frankensteinbeck:
You could have stopped there, but the rest is spot on…
patroclus
@J R in WV: I thought the Gadsden Purchase merely involved a small strip of land in New Mexico and Arizona that allowed for a possible southern route for the inter-continental railroad and that the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo ended the Mexican-American War and involved the cession of most of the SW to the U.S.
rikyrah
@pseudonymous in nc:
They want the Citizens United money.
Point blank.
rikyrah
@JGabriel:
I am pretty sure that the Spanish-speaking media who showed this last night on their broadcasts, don’t think it’s brilliant.
Uncle Cosmo
@patroclus: Bangalore!
Is there already an acronym floating around the next equivalent to “you said it so I didn’t need to”–? If not, let me offer YSISIDNT for general use.
SectionH
@SectionH: He’s going to be so sad.
Steeplejack
@pluky:
I often have to turn on closed captions while watching Vera and Shetland on PBS.
Ian
@starscream:
8 years is the historical precident sent by George Washington when he retired. Had he wanted it, he could probably have been president for life. He laid out (along with a strong isolationist policy/non-allignment policy) in his farewell speech that he believed executive power should be curbed by term limits. This unofficial policy continued until FDR, who was elected to four terms. After that, especially in light of WW2 and the rise of fascist dictators to the presidency of democratic European states like Germany and Italy, Congress passed the 22nd amendment.
Two terms, each dependent on winning a plurality of states based on population. Not exactly my idea of what Democracy ought to look like.