The answer to how Trump has succeeded is really simple: He lies nonstop, and lying works. Sure, there are other factors in play—he tapped into and intensified a certain strain of profound proletarian resentment of liberal elites, and … well, that’s about it. But mostly, it’s the lies.
…And, to reiterate, Trump tells many such lies a day. He talks to the press two or three times a day most days, which probably adds up to what, 45 minutes, an hour? Spitballing it at one lie every two minutes, which may well be low, that’s around 25 factual lies a day.
you really fell for that?
a man who’s bankrupted himself multiple times and failed at casinos, you think someone like that is going to ‘get corporate money out of government’?
I mean it’s easy with hindsight, we all made silly fucking assumptions. I assumed that after toying with this idiocy that we’d elect clinton, suck it up, and drive on with a democracy, because tho there’s a huge racist streak in america, no one would vote that cynically in the face of utter incompetence and stupidity.
silly fucking assumptions.
No, not that he would get corporate money out of govt, fucking hell no. Just that he would be bad enough for American government to realize that “well, we can’t let that happen again” and get corruption out of our system. Similar to how Germany stopped corruption after Hitler. And for like 14 months before Oct 7th, there were constant protest in Tel Aviv over Bibi’s corruption, I hope that as soon as possible, Israel also ends their corruption in government. But I’m really seeing now that it will have to get way worse than Trump for corruption to end in America.