College of Political Knowledge
2024 Election Series
I know….I know….this has been covered on many levels….however enough has not be said or written about the radical supporters of our former president…..much more needs to be aired so that the American do not err on the side of stupidity.
With all that said….why do the supporters of Trump become so rabid in that support?
This may answer some of the questions….
Americans today see two contradictory futures looming in the middle distance: In one scenario, Donald Trump is convicted of serious crimes and sent to prison. In the second, he returns to the presidency in 2025.
The urgent uncertainty of it all may be a reason why, in recent weeks, Trump has summoned forth some of the most incendiary rhetoric ever employed by an American presidential candidate. He has called for the execution of the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He now urges police to shoot shoplifters. He has begun characterizing his political adversaries as subhuman “vermin” who must be “rooted out.” Parroting the Third Reich while claiming (no doubt truthfully, in this case) that he has never read “Mein Kampf,” Trump has declared that immigrants from Latin America, Africa and Asia “poison the blood” of the United States.
And yet Trump is cruising to a third consecutive Republican presidential nomination, and many national polls show him beating Joe Biden in November. With ominous foreboding, the entire January/February issue of The Atlantic magazine was dedicated to one momentous question: “What if Trump wins?” Jeffrey Goldberg, the magazine’s editor, characterizes Trump as an “antidemocratic demagogue,” one “completely devoid of decency.” If Trump wins again, warns Mark Leibovich, author of “Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission” (2022), then we Americans will need to let go of the soothing notion that “this is not who we are.”
“Who is ‘we’ anyway?” Leibovich asks. “Because it sure seems like a lot of this ‘we’ keeps voting for Trump.”
How is it possible that a twice-impeached former president facing 91 criminal counts can now be favored to return to the Oval Office? Why do his supporters not recoil when Trump promises to unleash an authoritarian regime as president and to assume the role of dictator on Day One? What explains his enduring appeal?
https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-mass-psychology-of-trumpism/
My only answer to this is one of my favorite quotes….”Stupidity Is The Deliberate Cultivation Of Ignorance”….and there sums up the whole of the GOP.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
In Saner Thought 
It is all intense, indeed. But then the race to the electoral plls has become cut-throat industry and each side gets to serve its truckloads of manure and idiocy. Symptoms are there that there is a great deal of anger and resent among the people as well as unhappiness. Life wasn’t meant to be easy, I guess
It is indeed cutthroat….I believe that part could be lessened if we could take money out of the equation…..donations to a fund and it doled out to the candidates….a little equity….as far as the hate I have no answer at all….I guess people will hate when unhappy. Thanx for the comment chuq
HIs shocking rhetoric resonates in a world gone made – anger, resentment and hatred of the “other”: we will tear each other apart while parts of the world will rejoice…we are doing it to ourselves…
Sadly we are screwing ourselves….I see no change in the immediate future. chuq
We have obviously succumbed to some kind of self-destructive psychosis and I believe it is due partly to all the prescribed drugs and illicit drugs that a lot of people have been addicted to for so many years it has altered their brain chemistry and here we are… on the brink of Orwellianism.
I think it is the drug of social media that has done the altering. chuq
If they accept Trump is a cult, they can stop trying to explain it. Nobody really knows why cult-followers worship cult leaders, and whatever theories you come up with, it will never help you to understand something you don’t believe in, but they do.
Best wishes, Pete.
I have a problem with authority so a cult leader would have nothing for me. chuq
Nor me. :)
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