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trump has support that's 'a mile wide but not deep' from his cult. All they see now are the dazzling lights of his cons, but at some point, just watch.
I don't know when that will be. There was a movie, "A face in the crowd", tarring Andy Griffith, when he played a very trump-like character who became a very powerful voice in American politics. He just mowed down political opponents.
Someone close to him saw the danger he posed, and recorded him talking about his supporters as idiots, and aired it. His fame and power were ended immediately. That's one way.
It could be when trump does something his base strongly disapproves of - or simply when he leaves office and Republican politicians turn on him. It's hard to say what the event will be.
But at some point, a lot of people are going to come out of the cult, wonder what they had been thinking, and start saying they never much liked him anyway.
They can't see it now, but they will. In 1972, Nixon was re-elected winning 49 states. Less than two years later he had support in the 20 percent's, and was the most reviled president in history. And he had decades of history with America as a leading politician. He had actual accomplishments, and a lot less cynical country (until his crimes made them more cynical).
There's no 'there there' to trump's support. It's not really about him. It's a sugar high, it's hate and resentment and 'haha screw you establishment you don't like trump but we forced him on you', that's intense for his followers but has no solidity, no substance, nothing to make it last.
His power comes from the fear of the rest of his party's politicians saying 'the Emperor has great clothes', but that will evaporate the first chance that comes along. Some have already abandoned him, but the big rush will be at some key event. I won't mention other leaders who went from personality cults to despised, beyond a few examples, Hitler, Mao, Stalin, whose deeds have almost nothing to do with trump.
But their maniacal personality cults went far further than trump can dream - yet collapsed overnight. See the name of the city of 'Stalingrad' for just one example. And they, too, had much more substance than empty suit trump - Stalin winning WWII, Mao winning a revolution in China, etc. They had substance (and great evil deeds) trump does not. He's OBADA - One big ass distraction, America.
Even his opponents will go through some of the same experience.
They'll come to realize he wasn't the real issue, and they were too worked up over him instead of the real issues. trump would like to be a great change agent like a Mao or a Stalin or a you know who, and if he could, this would be a different situation, but he can't and won't. He's just a con man who isn't doing anything but trolling and reaching new lows of incompetence for the office he has. He'll be seen like Sarah Palin.
I don't know when that will be. There was a movie, "A face in the crowd", tarring Andy Griffith, when he played a very trump-like character who became a very powerful voice in American politics. He just mowed down political opponents.
Someone close to him saw the danger he posed, and recorded him talking about his supporters as idiots, and aired it. His fame and power were ended immediately. That's one way.
It could be when trump does something his base strongly disapproves of - or simply when he leaves office and Republican politicians turn on him. It's hard to say what the event will be.
But at some point, a lot of people are going to come out of the cult, wonder what they had been thinking, and start saying they never much liked him anyway.
They can't see it now, but they will. In 1972, Nixon was re-elected winning 49 states. Less than two years later he had support in the 20 percent's, and was the most reviled president in history. And he had decades of history with America as a leading politician. He had actual accomplishments, and a lot less cynical country (until his crimes made them more cynical).
There's no 'there there' to trump's support. It's not really about him. It's a sugar high, it's hate and resentment and 'haha screw you establishment you don't like trump but we forced him on you', that's intense for his followers but has no solidity, no substance, nothing to make it last.
His power comes from the fear of the rest of his party's politicians saying 'the Emperor has great clothes', but that will evaporate the first chance that comes along. Some have already abandoned him, but the big rush will be at some key event. I won't mention other leaders who went from personality cults to despised, beyond a few examples, Hitler, Mao, Stalin, whose deeds have almost nothing to do with trump.
But their maniacal personality cults went far further than trump can dream - yet collapsed overnight. See the name of the city of 'Stalingrad' for just one example. And they, too, had much more substance than empty suit trump - Stalin winning WWII, Mao winning a revolution in China, etc. They had substance (and great evil deeds) trump does not. He's OBADA - One big ass distraction, America.
Even his opponents will go through some of the same experience.
They'll come to realize he wasn't the real issue, and they were too worked up over him instead of the real issues. trump would like to be a great change agent like a Mao or a Stalin or a you know who, and if he could, this would be a different situation, but he can't and won't. He's just a con man who isn't doing anything but trolling and reaching new lows of incompetence for the office he has. He'll be seen like Sarah Palin.