...Trump's singular "accomplishment"...if we want to call it that...was identifying those people, knowing they had rightfully been pushed to the margins of society, knowing they resented it, knowing they felt powerless against it...
...and knowing he could mobilize them, monetize them, pick their pockets, and...by sending them the message they wanted to hear...they would empower his entry into a political career. They'd ELECT him.
He knew that 8 years of a Black man in the White House made these people NUTS. It was one of their worst nightmares come true. After all, their world...their reality...consisted of "Whites Only" lunch counters and drinking fountains and Black people riding ONLY at the back of the bus.
So...enter the Obama "Birther" racist conspiracy theory.
See, it NEVER MATTERED whether Trump could "prove" it or not. And obviously, he couldn't, because it was all a manufactured lie.
But it stirred up the resentment and anger and bigotry that permeated all 8 years of Obama's presidency.
Trump didn't "create" these people. They were the equivalent of a terrorist "sleeper cell," waiting for their "wake up call," and that call came from Trump.
And because he's the ONLY person with a public "megaphone" and a big mouth to yell into it who told these people "I UNDERSTAND how and why you feel that way, and you're RIGHT to feel that way," they decided he was, in fact, Jesus Christ, returned to Earth to walk among us again in human form.
So YES...1/4 of the country loves what Trump sells, and how he's selling it. He didn't create these people. They were here BEFORE his political career, and they will be here AFTER it. People like JD Vance and Stephen Miller will attempt to "give them oxygen" and "keep the MAGAt movement going," and I'm not convinced anyone can do that. I think that EVEN THOUGH IT WILL NOT HAPPEN OVERNIGHT, when TRUMP is gone, THEY will slither back into the shadows.
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