re: What history books in the future will cite for today as "they should've known"

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Trump was the end of American Democracy as we know it...

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Essentially it’s the gullibility of folks missing what the true “big lie” is.

Trump parlayed a caricature of himself created for a reality TV show into a presidential campaign, becoming so enthralled in it that it is what he actually became.

Grown-ups have always realized who and what he is. True Conservatives disdain him because he is unhinged, but they can’t afford to piss off their massive base of Wal Mart Republicans who love him as their champion of dog-whistle wedge issue politics. They hoped that given enough rope he would just hang himself, but the more absurd he became, the more he endeared himself to that base.