Trump is the vector, not the disease itself.
The disease is the curdling rage of the (mostly) working class that’s massively failed to achieve the American Dream™ that was promised to them, which has been perfectly heightened misdirected and cultivated by decades of right wing radio talk show hosts, psuedo ‘philosophers’, outright racist and religious extremists, conservative ‘think tanks’ lending credibility to failed economic doctrines, 30+ years of conservative influence on our public education systems essentially ruining it to the point that now only around 10% of Americans are capable of comparing and contrasting news coverage critically… etc etc.
Trump was just the first presidential candidate to completely drop the pretense and show the country that its fine to go totally mask off with your inane bullshit falsehoods, that there is no real need for anything other than appeal via signifiers and cliches and dogwhistle.
Actual policy means nothing, only spin.
Actual hypocrisy means nothing, just sling more baseless shit at others.
Reality means nothing, everyone else is wrong, you know in your heart what I am telling you, no matter how contradictory or incomprehensible it is, is true…
… because it allows you to feel rightfully indignant.
This has always been the strong undercurrent amongst conservatives.
Trump was just the vector that metastisized it into basically mass psychosis.
… the ‘yo quiero taco bellllll’ commercials?
=P