Donald Trump didn't create the insane 20% of our population. He awakened them.

[tblue37]

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Don Winslow
@donwinslow
Donald Trump didn't create the insane 20% of our population.

He awakened them.

[albacore]

1. And encouraged them to share their pathology with us. nt

[uponit7771]

2. K&R, GQP was doing voter suppression before Putin's whore

[cilla4progress]

5. Now that you mention him -

I believe Putin is behind much of this - sowing discord here.

We are quite an attractive target!

[uponit7771]

7. Yes, at minimum the message from Fox News and the Russians seem in sync

[cilla4progress]

3. I endorse the veracity

of this. Well put.

[Walleye]

4. You could say he empowered them

[Meadowoak]

6. 20% insane? Seems low.

[Gregory Peccary]

12. I think so too

At the very least 30% if not more.

[crud]

8. I get the feeling that many of them

were never into politics, understood it, or even voted before the scumbag came along. Not so sure they were "awakened" as in finally seeing the light...more like granted permission to be proudly ignorant and racist.

[PufPuf23]

9. Sadly, Trump (and similar) are symptoms not the cause of USA insanity.

Toxic religion.

Toxic greed.

Toxic racism, sexism, ageism, nationalism, .....

Toxic media

Toxic nepotism and tribalism

War and those that make war

Too many fucking guns and idiots and those of black heart.

[pandr32]

10. He used them for his own benefit

[Ms. Toad]

11. He didn't awaken them. He gave their voices legitimacy

which allowed them to speak out loud what most of them said to each other but were hesitant to say in public

[blm]

13. He rattled their cages and fed them steroids

supplied by Putin.

[patricia92243]

14. He made hate and violence acceptable.

[LiberalFighter]

15. Covid should help clean some of them out.

[Ace Rothstein]

16. The internet also helped them find each other.

[In It to Win It]

17. He enabled them