And maybe it did. But the point is the individual has become addicted to such emotional rhetoric believing it is a salve for their soul. Validation via sound bite.
But like with any addict the dosage required to get the same high increases with time so they are compelled to find their validation in more and more outrageous statements. And like an addict, denying that there is any sort of problem. Eventually turning their emotional instability on people who question the efficacy of the rhetoric.
That's where the hatred comes from.
So really nothing has changed. We went through the same thing in 2012 and here we are again in 2016 only it's much worse. We are on the brink of the total destruction of the GOP. With all those words, you must be a doctor of something or other.
No doctor, but let me ask you a question. In all the time we've been on FR how many posts have you seen where a Freeper becomes agitated because some politician or talking head, in attempting to talk about an issue, phrases it in such a way as to leave the Freeper wanting? "Oh God! If only he/she said it this way, used this turn of phrase or brought up this factoid."
Why the obsession with the, 'fixed-it' phenomenon? It's like an itch that can't be scratched. For a lot of people here a certain candidate is scratching it for them to their relief.
Because of that phenomenon I'm a Trump skeptic. People are deriving too much emotional satisfaction from his candidacy. Not just here on FR but in the general public as well. And for myself personally, I'm suspicious of such movements.