[Jim Noble]

The unabashed exercise of RAW POLITICAL POWER

Well, be fair.

The bad guys have understood that the goal of politics is to gain and then to exercise raw political power to help your people and destroy the opposition.

Prattling on with 18th century fairy tales about "constitutional republics" and "government is not the solution, government is the problem" while THEY take over the government and find that it's a perfectly acceptable solution to what they see as problems is a formula for failure and surrender.

[Samurai_Jack]

“the goal of politics is to gain and then to exercise raw political power to help your people and destroy the opposition.”

Point Well Taken.
And that is the reason why Trump is gaining popularity. Because ‘the opposition’ has seen how the bad guys treated ‘moderates’ like McCain, Romney, Bush, Pense. I (they) like Trump because he is a disruptor, a wheel breaker. Trump is the fly in the globalist ointment and you can tell that they do not like it.

Trump is not the problem, he is a symptom.

[riri]

And using those arguments with an ever growing population of 80 IQ point (and lower) people with very high time preference thinking and low impulse control.

All they see is stuff they want and a target to direct their mismanaged and misplaced emotions.