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I was looking something up in @bterris's book (which you should read), and I recalled the chapters about Matt Schlapp in there. And I wonder if, in their hearts, all of the people who got on Team Trump - including Trump - wish they could go back to 2016 and lose. /1
They could win again, of course. But nothing will be the same - and Trump will likely not bring them back in. He'll choose new cronies. Trump himself will be in a cold sweat every day (as he is now). Republicans will be chained to a sociopath (as they are now). /2
I can't help but wonder if so many of the people who talked to Ben would, in the dark of night, admit that their lives would have been better off in every way if Trump had run and lost, and they could have spent four years chasing after Hillary Clinton. /3
And the people that voted for him? Instead of imaginary worries that others look down on them, they know now that others - their neighbors, in many places - now really do look down on them, and for good reason. If Trump had lost, they could have written it all off. /4
Instead, they've had to insist they remain loyal to a cult to avoid a cognitive dissonance meltdown. If Trump had lost, they could say "Well, I woulda given him a chance, who knows." But now, they're stuck. He screwed them; nothing changed; they know it; they won't say it. /5
All this because of boredom and listlessness in a society that can't seem to find meaning in anything but the worship of celebrities and a generic counter-cultural childishness that asserts individuality by opposing whatever most other people think, purely to be shocking. /6
Sad coda: I agree with @DavidAFrench that a real tragedy in all this is watching old people piss away their later years marinating in synthetic rage instead of enjoying their familes.
And all for what? For nothing. For less than nothing. /7x
And all for what? For nothing. For less than nothing. /7x
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