I see support for Trump as more of a Faustian pact. Trump tells voters what he thinks they want to hear. They believe him even though most of them know he’s betrayed almost everyone in his life. And because they so want to believe him, he must be the one they’ve been waiting for. He will probably write a book about how he bamboozled Americans into electing him, like the book where he brags about adultery. I think we need to accept that former conservatives are now a part of the same political hypocrisy as the left has been for many years. Namely, the left would never turn on Clintons because of their support for abortion even if they knew he’d perjured himself. Now, the right won’t turn on Trump because he’s promising a wall and to make America Great Again - details are of no concern. The old ideas that words mattered, that character mattered, that adultery mattered, and that experience mattered are all passé. Only fuddy duddies worry about truth telling now. The new Trump style conservative embraces situational ethics. He supports the destruction of the GOP even more than the Democrats. There is no such thing as contradiction because the only thing that matters is what Trump tells them.
“I see support for Trump as more of a Faustian pact.”
I look at it more like a cult.
Maybe THE best summation of Donald Trump. Sometimes I think there is something wrong with me, that I can not jump on the Trump 757.....then I read a reasonable message and I feel normal again. Thanks.
Maybe you have read the latest from Trump........He claims he reads the bible more than anyone ever, more than John Kerry. (I have no idea what that means). Then he does this.....”I have a great relationship with God and Evangelical VOTERS.” (I find mixing politics and religion repugnant, so that isn’t my point). It is that by simply making this statement he considers Evangelicals stupid because they wouldn’t know they are being played. Plus the comment about the bible is simply a lie.