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How Long Will Trump Continue to Entertain?
When Trump announced in 2015 that he was going to run, a friend of mine who is in the production end of television told me that he could win. Why? Because he knew how to ‘connect’ to an audience thanks to his TV show.
And what is clear to me now, in a way that it was never previously clear, was that politics has become how a personality appears in person or on a screen, regardless of what they say.
Take a look at this clip: MAGA Stumped When Asked A Simple Civics Question (youtube.com).
Does this woman have any idea of how stupid she sounds when she says that the Democrats are trying to turn the country into a Communist state?
And of course, she buys into every conspiracy theory about how the government fudges the numbers and is letting all these illegal immigrants into places they don’t belong.
Best of all, she knows for a fact that Joe’s just a figurehead being managed by Barack Obama who is the real President and will do anything to keep Trump from regaining the office that he not only deserves but had the office stolen away from him.
Don’t get me wrong. There are plenty of Democrat(ic) voters out there who will also say anything to justify a vote for Joe, stolen or not. But the difference is that what you get from most no-brain Democrats is…