Explaining Donald Trump
A hundred years from now, all new people – including Americans, if there are any left – will look back on the Donald Trump Era of American politics, scratch their heads, and wonder what we were thinking.
Trump is a man of no moral or intellectual substance whatsoever. He lies. He admits to grabbing women by the pussy. He believes, among other things, that the American Revolution was won when the Continental Army secured British airports 127 years before the invention of the airplane.
This has earned him the GOP presidential nomination three times and the presidency once, a term marked by ignorance, incompetence, and impeachments.
We feel that the blame for this can be placed squarely on the shoulders of the media. There was a time when the media would have had a blatherskite like Trump out of the race before the primaries. They didn’t, though. Trump means ratings and clicks, so he was escorted straight to the primaries, the nomination, and the presidency.
How did this happen? How did the GOP go from Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump, elements that, if plotted on a graph, would yield a perpendicular line?
Future generations will point to an America that was increasingly partisan and intolerant of views that differed from their own and a Trump base that was open to being told exactly what they wanted to hear. They will note an America that was well-fed, well-entertained, and not much interested in putting any work into their government.
Donald Trump is a lying sexual predator who believes the moon is part of Mars. We deserve better than this, and the fact we are not demanding it – that we’re lowering ourselves to Trump’s level – is a blight on our country.
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