I love the contradictions you get with trump and his supporters.
The anti-semitic rhetoric and yet the unquestioning support for Israeli far-right hardliners.
The anti-Wall Street rhetoric and then the boasting about how trump is good for the stock market and the financial sector, and the total blindness to his boast about removing all financial regulation.
The rhetoric about “the 1%”, yet the unquestioning support for tax policies that will benefit the 1% and nobody else.
The claims that “America declined as great power under Obama”, yet thinking that withdrawing from the world will restore it as a “great power”.
The isolationism now from the exact same people who were screaming furiously to go to war in 2003.
The isolationist rhetoric, and the simultaneous rhetoric that “we’re going to eliminate Islamic terrorism from the face of the earth”, something that would require an expansion of foreign interventionism to a level unprecendented for any country at any time in the history of the world.
The pro-“free speech” rhetoric then, post November 9th, the anti-free speech rhetoric.
The constant, cliched nonsense about “snowflakes” and then the sudden conversion to ultra-snowflakeism.
The total embrace of fake news against opponents, and then, post November 9th, the furious claims of “fake news” against any story remotely critical of trump.
The constant claims the “election is going to be rigged”, and then the furious denials of any Russian interference in the campaign post from November 9th onwards.
The constant claims that few people were attending Hillary Clinton’s rallies, and the curious airbrushing of the fact that not much more than a few white people and their dogs turned up to the inauguration today.
trumpism is a bubble and an echo chamber, the greatest bubble and the greatest echo chamber of all-time.