I saw an old Ed Templeton reply to a comment on IG saying they were drinking the koolaid for thinking Trump is a problem and I facepalmed into the next dimension, because has Ed always been like this?
Depends on the context. Trump is definitely THE RESULT of years of cuts to education, a capitalist media that says your worth is tied to how much you make, and that even the gentlest tip-toes towards socialist programs are will destroy your freedom. Violence as a valid form of political protest and the only way to affect policy is part of the American mythos. Not to mention a fanatic religious zeal that rejects facts in favor of grand saviors and destruction has been with the country from the beginning.
In that sense, the Trump cult is the culmination of all of that, with a healthy dose of white people fearing that their privileged position is slipping away.
Dealing with all the problems that gave us Trumps is much harder to comprehend. It’s much easier just to blame it all on him.