What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Washington to be born?
If you have wondered why Trumps 'fan base' continues to bray about how great he is despite all evidence to the contrary (he is a crook, he cheats, he believes everyone else is wrong except for him, his ego is so fragile that he launches a nuclear attack on anyone that dares try and pin anything on him. He is slimy, untrustworthy, sociopathic, and has only a (very faint) passing acquaintance with the truth.), it's not really that hard to understand when you look at what motivates and excites them.
When Trump was campaigning, he repeatedly highlighted three things. The USA would build a wall between us and Mexico and the Mexicans would pay for it. ICE would be instructed to identify illegal immigrants who had committed criminal acts and arrange to have them deported. There would be a ban on Muslim immigrants and visitors from certain countries. A fourth thing was repealing Obamacare, which was un-American, socialist and gets taken advantage of by illegals and those too lazy to work.
Obamacare. If the name Obama was attached to it then it was bound to a secret Muslim communist plot to enslave us patriots!!! So the turkeys were quite happy to vote for Thanksgiving although even they will surely wish they hadn't. However, in the great scheme of things, patriotic Americans don't really care much about the repeal of Obamacare because they don't understand what it is or how it benefits them. When Trump stated during his campaign that there would be a new health care scheme that would be beautiful, the best they've every had. No-one said "Bullshit!!", or "How the fuck's that gonna work?". They just went yuk, yuk, yuk, let's MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
So Obamacare lit the fire but what fanned the flames and got that patriotic fervor roaring was Mexicans and Muslims. It was clear to the patriots that Trump didn't care for either of them and beings as Rush, Sean, Mark, and Michael had been telling them that all Mexicans were illegals and murderous scumbags, and that all Muslims want to blow the fuck out of the good old USA, the boys and girls who love God and guns felt that there was at last someone who shared their prejudices and racism and would go to Washington and Make America White Again. It is these people who unquestionably believe that Trump validates their racism and xenophobia and so it does not matter how much of a prick he is, as long as he hates M&Ms he will be their guy.
When you pause and take a step back, then look at what has happened over the last year it just seems incredible. How could it have ever been possible that there could be such an un-presidential, embarrassing asshole sat behind the desk of the Oval Office? He did not get there with just his fan base. The Democrats were so sure that Hillary was a shoe in for Pres that they fielded their backup campaign team who, of course, did their best to fuck things up and did a damn fine job of it. Hubris bit them in the ass and so they have no-one to blame but themselves.
I have no idea what the next few years hold for America but I do know that like watching a guy walking across Niagara Falls on a tightrope, you're not going to be able to look away.
