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by Orichá » Tue Sep 06, 2022 8:34 am
Regarding Trump, I don't think I can understand this "documents event" without engaging in about three hours of deep reading. The legalities are too obscure ...
Although most presidents have undertaken illegal activities and done secret things, I am hoping this scandal helps to sink Trump's ship. I'd be mortified if he gets in again.
The sad thing is trying to comprehend how a compulsive fabulist and con-man thief (who repeatedly absconded and broke his nefarious real estate contracts) ever got into power... Also, Trump University anyone?
How come so many many Americans found his brand of lying bluster so attractive? Trump is symptomatic of the social split between the frustrated and shrinking white middle American class, and the growing influx of new citizens from around the world...
The Trumpist ultranationalist types pretend to a myth of a "once-great America" that he promised he would restore. Of course, that land never really existed. Today, the gulf between the haves and have nots has only widened and is more visible due to the media and social mobility. For example, back in the 1950s, people in middle America did not know about how badly fucked up the deep south was... Now we do know.
The growing social gulf between rich and poor seems to have exacerbated both bigotries and insane conspiracy. ...These symptoms and the disease itself can't be caused only by the entrenched bureaucracy of Washington power.
(Nobody in middle America talks much about the deep-rooted role NYC finance plays in American government, and neither do they understand big industry, either... There are huge American arms manufacturers with offices on the same street as the defense department in Maryland...)
Anyway, I hope it's bye-bye Trump.
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