America's Whiniest 'Victim': Charles Blow NAILS Trump in today's NYT (MUST-READ)

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3. Correct - but it needs to said and held in perspetive

It is in this near perfect state of perpetual aggrievement that Trump gives voice to a faction of America that also feels aggrieved. Trump won because he whines. He whines in a way that makes the weak feel less vulnerable and more vicious. He makes feeling sorry for himself feel like fighting back."

This is correct. BUT, it did not start when he came down the escalator 2 years ago.

The Republican party has seared this mentality into 1/3 of the country with DECADES of non-stop AM radio and other conservative media mind melding. The whole thing is based on victimhood - tell people they are GREAT patriots and christians, then tell them they under attack and tweak their biases and prejudices, time after time after time, nurture and fertilize the lesser qualities of otherwise, mostly, decent people,

45 is a con man. Con men know the key is not the con, but the mark. He saw what republicans were doing to this country and knew he could plug into it.