cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/50388
segment of the country’s population who felt left out of the political process, and who saw no real future for themselves without significant rollback and reform of the system that governed them. Some lodged a protest vote by voting for Trump. Others hoped that he would be a revolutionary.
For the elites, Donald Trump was either a nuisance or a threat to democracy, depending on who you asked. Those with the most invested in perpetuating the course of the regime screamed the loudest and exaggerated the most about the ‘threat’ that he posed. Mainstream media was all too happy to cooperate with this segment of the elites, amplifying the ‘threats’ that he posed, creating a state of paranoia among Americans across the political aisle, with some worried about Trump becoming a dictator by seizing power in a coup, and still others frightened by the prospects of a civil war. This hysteria was manufactured and deployed to subvert his Presidency.