• @UnderpantsWeevil
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    2715 days ago

    What devil has this guy made a deal with?

    He cut a Faustian Bargain with the soul of America. And like Faust, he gets to spend his days capering and clowning about his social superiors, making unholy mischief in a kingdom that is itself revealed to be terminally corrupt and wholely damned.

    Trump took the Objectivist philosophy that’s guided this country for a generation and embodied it. He is Reaganism in its manifest state. Just a guy entirely out for himself who has convinced 71M other people to do the same.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      1215 days ago

      What’s more concerning is that millions more people saw it and didn’t bother to stop him.

      • zqps
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        214 days ago

        I always knew it was possible for right-wing populism and proto-fascism to take hold in America. A society that seems itself immune and superior is especially susceptible.

        But I honestly didn’t think it would be a complete idiot like Trump. A wannabe dictator is supposed to be charismatic. His ramblings couldn’t invigorate a chicken coop. And yet it seems people are so desperate for his ilk that not even that’s an issue.

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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          114 days ago

          Nobody lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.