Saw this post and thought it was pretty good: trump discovered what every skilled grifter eventually learns: chaos pays better than construction, destruction requires less talent than creation, and grievance proves more profitable than solutions. He's monetized the dark arts, weaponizing rage, packaging paranoia, selling apocalyptic fantasies to the perpetually aggrieved.
This is parasitism elevated to business model: identify society's worst impulses, amplify them for profit, dress nihilism in populist rhetoric. He doesn't build anything; he demolishes for pay. He doesn't solve problems; he exacerbates them for revenue.
trump represents the eternal opportunist who recognizes that tearing down institutions requires no vision, that stoking tribal warfare demands no principles, that profiting from national division needs only shamelessness. He found his niche alright, as carnival barker for American decline, profiteer of our unraveling.
The "dark side" wasn't accidental destination but deliberate choice, because exploiting humanity's basest instincts proves far more lucrative than appealing to its better angels.