The frightening thing to me is how easily Trump supporters not only give him a pass, but convince themselves there is no way he could do anything wrong, so whatever he does is perfectly fine and in fact the best course of action at the moment. There is a wave going around my wife's facebook group that Trump only took home documents to help protect the country and so by raiding Mar-a-Lago the FBI actually committed treason.
Of course this is heavily dependent on many of them still holding out that Trump is still the rightful dictat...uh president and that Biden was elected due to massive and unprecedented voter fraud never before seen in our country. So with this heavy victim mentality, it is easy for them to bring anything else into their belief-system that exonerates Trump and in fact makes him the martyr/hero of the story. He could literally be holding children chained up in his basement at Mar-a-Lago and a substantial portion of the US would forgive him, justify his actions (he was protecting the children from their liberal parents, you know, q-anon and other such ********), and praise him as the messiah they believe him to be. He was absolutely right when he said he could shoot someone and no one would care. But worse than that, many would find a way to tie into their messiah-worship complex as a heroic act necessary for the security and safety of the country.
I do not think we have ever seen such a cult of personality in the presidency, or really in any high office of our government, like this before. And hopefully we never do again.
This crap is really way over the top of crazy. And I'm the expert on that subject, if you believe any of your "friends" in here.
No President of the Us has ever had the lunatic opposition Trump has had. Before he was even elected, plans were laid for his impeachment. "The Resistance" in here declared their heroic opposition the day he won. Many dems claimed his victory was "illegal" and that he was illegitimate as Prwsident.
Should have been a lot of media crap about how those folks were an insurrection, but the Media was in with it big time.
To become reasonabler about all this, you need to recognize why he was ever a "thing". For decades, no one could get a swing at the Presidency without approval from an "in-crowd" in Washington and in corporate America, lets call them "the Chamber of Commerce" or the Council on Foreign Relations..... pretty much the same thing. Even the media honchos are all in the CFR.
Ostensibly, the CFR is a non-partisan club that invites prestigious people to join. Lately, they've opened up membership to applicants, but they have a set of intellectual offerings, books and such, they want you to read. But in reality, it is the American twin of the British Royal Institute of Institute of international Affairs, the Pemberly Place er..... Chatham House of British high society. Both originated at the same meeting and arose from the same plan to solidify Western political alignment. Sibling instutes or councils have been established in almost every western nation. They have been so effective in controling politics in all of these countries, no one could ever get into power without belonging, essentially, to the "club".
Donald Trump went to the head office of the US CFR, hat in hand, seeking approval from the head of that organization, but he failed to comply with the fundamental conditions for acceptance. He had his own ideas. He wasn't going to just take instructions.
For decades, American conservatives with ideals of having a government they could expect to comply with their ideas have been so badly lied to, and about, by politicians and all kinds of progressive political wonks, there was a huge mass of of the electorate that almost stopped believing they had any say. Add to that the millions of ordinary Americans who have been hammnered economically by bad government policies and leadership, who just wanted something diff3erent.
So here come Trump, with just enough financial independence he " could "just say "no" to bad government". He stood up and said a few things that lit the fire for change, the real hope for change.
And a real threat to the Establishment.
So go ahead, love your Establishment. Love your politcal dream.
but Trump is nothing but a real "American" who represents the will of most Americdans. If he goes ttotalitarian, he'll be gone overnight. If he sticks to doing stuff people want him to do, he's a threat to your bad political wetdreams. Buty not to democracy.
