The first thing that was needed was a hammer at Policital Correctness (PC). Only Trump cared to push back against this, and he REALLY took it on his chin for all of this time. Without that, no conservative could have successfully uttered conservative thought to the populous.
Second, Trump was the only candidate that used a ready means to get around the State-controlled media (Twitter). This was absolutely needed, as well. The MSM as a filter has perverted every conservative’s words for many decades.
That people still saw hypocrisy and joked about PC and the insanity of Liberalism (and were becoming scared of it) was key to what Trump saw and unleashed. When he uses yet another readily-available event to hallmark what Liberalism has wrought (normally due to the need to have a very public “cover/distraction” from another needed policy change (i.e - 0care and Iran tweaks), his now unleashed forces of good throughout the country independently fight liberals using the tools of the Internet. This has allowed two recent events (Weinstein and the NFL) to stand out publicly and let the anger bring down more than just those few protesters (NFL) and Weinstein, himself. Instead, they properly smear Liberalism and bring it down, not unlike all of the anti-PC work Trump has been doing, all along.
It’s just a continuation of “Trumpism.” Think “Crooked Hillary” times ten, and this will continue to negatively affect Liberalism for some time to come.
Trump unshackled our country. What we do with this blessing, is up to us.
FTA: “The spectacle of a rich feminist and progressive icon like Jane Fonda whimpering about her own moral cowardice has destroyed the credibility we foolishly gave to Hollywood’s dunces and poltroons.”
Many of us had a revelation about how ugly liberalism is all the way back her behavior during the Vietnam war. (relating my experience regarding Churchill’s quote about not being liberal when young, not having a heart; not being conservative when older, not having a brain.) We left that war but I don’t believe we’re going to leave this war. It’s too close to home.