apple sauce wrote:
There are other factors with Trumpism.
There is now an entertainment wing of politics. It is the new soap opera for some and has little to do with boring policy. It is my team is good and the others are demons!
You mix in a lot of false equivalences and grievance collectors who are bored or lonely and want to feel part of a community and some zingers. And they search for latest outage to bond over.. People who think it just isn't fair and Trump is the only one standing up to "them".
There are people on the left who act the same way. But they aren't, for the most part, in office.
It's like they've set up a permanent IV to feed the mouth breathers' victimhood, white male anxiety, and inferiority complex. They are addicts and depend on having others to look down on for their sanity. The Trump camp milks this to the max. Solutions are not needed.
