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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"He targets the darkness, anger & insecurity that hide in each of us & harnesses them for his own.."
(Trump's) approach succeeds because of his preternaturally deft grasp of his audience. Though he is neither terribly articulate nor a seasoned politician, he has a remarkable instinct for discerning which conspiracy theories in which quasi-news source, or which of his own inner musings, will turn into ratings gold. He targets the darkness, anger and insecurity that hide in each of us and harnesses them for his own purposes. If one of his lies doesnt work well, then he lies about that
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kwassa
(23,340 posts)and this quote is excellent, too.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)used by the Tent so called Evangelist's at their so called Recruitment Rallies.
Cosmocat
(14,565 posts)this was a thing. 45 is merely the latest de-evolution of this.
This didn't start when he came down that escalator two years ago.
The "conservative movement" has been doing this my entire adult life - since the early 90s.
Reagen successfully laid the groundwork with his hollywood emmy award winning performance at POTUS that put an affability to it, gussied up what the radical right fringes were trying to do and made it acceptable to the country at large.
It took the next step with the widespread growth of AM hate radio in the 80s/90s and fully infested DC when the Rick Santorum class hit congress in the republican 90 wave.
During the 90s they were hate filled and angry, really took the next level in bullshit politics spending millions of tax payer dollars and time going after Bill and Hill - with scumbag's like Gingrich engaged in their own affairs while making Bill's blowjob into, no shit, a national security issue because he could be coopted if the Russians had found out. Oh, and also screaming how the tail was wagging the dog because he rightfully tried to warn the country about the threat of Islamic terrorists, they wanted nothing to do with that and said he was playing politics trying to take attention away from the biggest scandal ever - his getting a blowjob!
They knew W was a moron, so they chanted and got their media whores on board with electing "a guy you would like to have a beer with."
The moron didn't give a flip about terrorism until it interrupted his reading My Pet Goat. 9-11 was of course, Clinton's fault for not having used the Minority Report to get OBL, and the country HAD to get behind W.
7 years of not being able to oppose them on anything because he was the COMMANDER IN CHIEF AT A TIME WHEN TROOPS WERE IN THE FIELD!, phrase never again heard after January of 2009.
They then spent the last 8 years getting up in the morning, turning on the news and throwing a fit like a 4 year old screaming whatever the first thing they saw on it was BHO's fault.
I guess what I am saying is, the last three decades I have been pulling my hair out in frustration because the republican party has increasingly appealed to the lesser nature of the people of this country, which has EVERY GOD DAMNED TIME indulged their fuck wittery.
It was mind bending in the 90s, and only has gotten worse. 45 never exists if they had not skull fucked 2/3 of this country for over a quarter century.
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