RolStoppable said: You hate him, but you want him to get the easy way out. You wish for a setup that invites a longstanding Trump cult to be established. You are your own worst enemy. |
I live in what can only be described as Trump Town USA and I know enough of these people personally to assure you that this is a man who is much stronger alive than dead. Trump isn't a skilled, successful demagogue like Modi of India or Putin of Russia or Xi of China or Duterte of the Philippines or Erdogan of Turkey. The Western variations of this authoritarian, "new right" phenom -- like Trump of this country, Johnson of the UK, and Bolsanaro of Brazil -- are decidedly more bumbling and incompetent and accordingly far less successful and far less popular than their Eastern counterparts who actually understand their populations. They've proven unable to consolidate power around them as yet. The Western "new right" is probably on its way out already, to that end, quite frankly, and this election is just one manifestation of that trajectory. It's a real thing in the
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