These numbskulls pose a threat precisely because they’re so stupid it’s hard for anyone to take them seriously — but they’re also smart enough to use that to their advantage. And those of us who thought we were smart turned out to be the stupid ones: We naïvely thought that everyone had enough brain cells to dismiss absurd conspiracies out of hand. We overestimated their intelligence. But they didn’t overestimate ours.
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Trump’s idea of unity is that everyone else should conform to his wishes, and if they don’t want to, he’ll force them to do so. But more than half the nation doesn’t agree with this concept, and that’s what has brought us to where we are today: An unyielding chief executive, backed by a minority of followers who hold political power on the one hand, and the rest of us, who are mad as hell and aren’t going to take it anymore.
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By now, there’s plenty of evidence that Trump isn’t good at fixing things: He couldn’t fix his bankrupt businesses. He hasn’t fixed the coronavirus pandemic, the North Korean nuclear crisis, the broken health-care system... The list goes on. But it’s not Trump’s ability to solve problems that attracts followers, but his willingness to say he can do it.
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