To hear the folks at MSNBC tell it, one could get the impression that this upcoming presidential election is the most consequential in the country’s history. Actually, they’ve been saying that for a while now, and I guess there’s truth to it.
I don’t know how it’s being painted on Fox or Newsmax, but it’s probably quite different. Or the same gravity but for different reasons. Another universe, Earth 2.
The diehard Trumpers are locked in, no hope of changing any minds in that camp. But their numbers are relatively small and apparently getting smaller. It’s just that they have an outsized megaphone, and whatever Trump and the little Trumps populating state legislatures and town councils are saying is landing on receptive ears.
It’s easy to be incredulous, to ask oneself how things possibly could have gotten this out of hand in the “land of the free and the home of the brave,” but it probably shouldn’t come as any surprise.
Hmm… free… brave… who are we talking about– the blowhard psychopath with the messiah complex, or the twenty-something soldiers and weekend warriors who keep having to pay for some suit’s power trip?
It’s messy.
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