What is the long-term effect of Donald Trump?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Even if he loses, Donald Trump isn’t going away. But the man and the political phenomenon he has unleashed over the past 16 months are already posing a difficult chicken-or-egg question: Has Trump transformed America, or simply revealed it?

Trump’s slash-and-burn march to the Republican nomination and on into this fall is perhaps the ultimate blending of entertainment and politics, a coarse yet mesmerizing new show that appears to have changed political language and deepened divisions in an already polarized nation. But is this a singular moment, tied exclusively to Trump’s larger-than-life personality and searing rhetoric, or has he loosed into the culture a new virus of confrontation and anger?

“Win or lose, the Trump effect will be felt long after the election,” said David Nevins, president of Showtime, who has spent decades reflecting the nation’s mood on TV shows such as “24,” “Friday Night Lights” and “Homeland.” “Trump and his followers are in many ways a rebuke to the elites who are perceived as controlling popular culture. The people who feel left out, passed over, now have a champion, even though he’s actually one of the New York media power establishment.”

Admire him or loathe him, many Americans are fascinated by Trump, and that fascination is feeding a wave of new work that will aim to entertain and challenge the public in the coming years. Trump’s ability to embrace — or manipulate — average Americans’ anxieties is inspiring more raw and rough rhetoric in politics, darker and more somber popular music, and in TV, movies and other arts, an edgier, more nervous set of characters and themes.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-is-the-long-term-effect-of-donald-trump/ar-AAjh7mp?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

[jberryhill]

1. Occasional rash, post-herpetic neuralgia

The long term effects of Trump can be annoying, but most of them can be treated with over the counter remedies.

[forgotmylogin]

2. He'll still be around.

He will just have the pall of "most spectacularly failed Presidential campaign" over him for the rest of his life and in history books.

[johnnyrocket]

3. I'll wager: Trump goes completely bankrupt.

[duncang]

4. I keep hearing about the people who have been passed over, left out, etc

But the dipshit voters I know haven't been. It's what they have been told over the years and believe. They come home from work, watch the local news (No or very little political news), and read their emails.

I don't know how many here have been put on cc lists for them, but for a while I was getting several a week. When that is pretty much your political news with the random look at faux news your view of the the U.S. political system would get pretty messed up. I know it doesn't account to all of his followers, but pretty sure it accounts for a lot of it.

Almost everyone of these emails tries to make the person feel rage at "x" person or persons. It also makes a feeling if you don't agree then you are not one of "us". Or even worse you want Christmas and Christianity to be taken away, etc. It's part of a campaign for the "them" against "us" idea. If you don't support this you must be "them" and don't deserve to be a part of the U.S. .