Yes to everything you have said.
And in my own much less eloquent way…
Trump is just a classic snake oil salesman. He has mastered the art of manipulating, never apologizing, never acknowledging any of his own contradictions. And he just says things over and over and over and over so that people believe him. And then the internet magnifies what he says. So you can go online and find “source” after “source” quoting his truth. So it feeds into the illusion he has created.
It is a troubling time.
I wonder how many policies Trump has touted will be implemented. And then I wonder when people feel the implications in their wallets if they will realize they were complicit in what has come.
But then the scary thing is they won’t. And will probably further and perhaps more violently place the blame of vulnerable populations of people.
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