[quote=njtosd] As anyone who has read The Crucible can attest, uncertain times bring out the conservative tendencies in a population . . .[/quote]
Which is part of the reason (along with the desire to discredit Obama) that the right-wing noise machine has been peddling gloom and doom for so long.
It’s working for them. People are buying it. And because they’ve been buying the right-wing noise machine’s doom and gloom and racism and xenophobia, they are ripe for Trump. I was surprised at Trump’s appeal, too. But I shouldn’t have been surprised. We shouldn’t have been surprised. The leaders of the republican party sure as hell shouldn’t have been surprised.
In retrospect, it seems kind of obvious that a bunch of people who have been told (and emotionally manipulated to believe) for years that things are bad and will get worse, things are dangerous, foreigners are bad, Islam is bad and will hurt you, that the establishment is bad, nobody in Washington is listening to you, etc. would gravitate to someone like Trump. Someone who says all of the above, but not in code, who can (or can pretend to) relate to their fears, and who says he will fight and kill whoever it takes to protect the poor schlubs who would be the victims of all those things.
I should probably be tired of saying this by now, but I’m not: They brought it on themselves, they shouldn’t be surprised, and they are getting what they deserve.
