The Trump Army: Haters invited, incited and convinced to hate
By Mark Morford
Everyone’s got their theories. Every pundit from here to MSNBC’s poor old Joe Scarborough is pondering the cruel meanings, the root causes, the potentially devastating ramifications of Trump’s nasty rise to political power, offering all manner of explanation, half-baked rationalization and pre-emptive autopsy on the shattered American experiment.
It was the racist backlash against Obama that gave us Trump, sayeth the terrific Jamelle Bouie over at Slate (which is ironic, given how it was the backlash against a devastatingly dumb n’ destructive GW Bush that gave us Obama). It was the GOP’s endless years of fearmongering and anti-everything odium that dumbed down their base to a Trump-ready degree, (sayeth, well, me, along with many others).
Or perhaps it was our nation’s vicious social inequity, the Great Socioeconomic Divide that allowed a monster like Trump to stagger in and take charge of a ragtag army of angry, righteous white minions – largely by telling them, over and over and over, that they’re an army of angry, righteous minions, and he is their rich, creepy king.
Or maybe this was the plan all along. Maybe it was Trump himself who’s been strategizing and plotting for years how best to stab the American political system in the eye, right after having his massive, trembling ego smashed to bits at a 2011 Correspondents’ Association dinner with Obama and Seth Myers. You think? The poor orange thug.
All true, yes? And yet still all sort of… incomplete.
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