Trump for Dummies - How the government and the media waged a campaign against half the country and created an ongoing mass delusion

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Posted on 10/22/2024 5:59:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Years from now, the question will go something like this, “where were you when you first realized the media was lying to you about Trump?”

Me, I was watching Trump speak at Mount Rushmore in 2020 just as the COVID lockdowns had abruptly ended to make way for the largest protests in American history. They said it was about systemic racism, but I knew it wasn’t. It was about Trump and all of the forces at play to remove him from power.

Yes, even the protests.

Trump was the first person of any kind of prominence to call out the madness of “cancel culture,” the burning of cities, the violence the media suppressed, and he vowed to do something about it. I didn’t agree with everything he said, but I realized then and there that he was not who I thought he was.

At least half the country has been trapped in a mass delusion for ten years, maybe longer. What else can explain what has happened to so many of them, how they could be so consumed by hatred that they would go along with any punishment enacted upon Trump, or whomever the next person in line behind him will be. Elon Musk? JD Vance?

We joke that it’s TDS or Trump Derangement Syndrome, but I think that’s being too kind.

The good news is that more and more people are waking up to what has been done to us all in the name of preserving the American utopia built under the Obama administration. Trump had to represent racism because how else could they sell him as an “existential threat” to the country?

Says Adam B. Coleman: [video at link]

I try to remember when it started, this idea that America was under an urgent threat of rising racism and “white supremacy.” It happened around the time of the Tea Party’s founding, the only grassroots movement I’ve ever seen coming from the Right.

For most of my life, the Republicans were the establishment party. After the 2008 Wall Street crash, the Tea Party began mobilizing and forming a powerful coalition that must have worried many in our establishment government.

Just arguing class or economics or dismantling the bloated administrative state would not have convinced hearts and minds to turn on them. They had to be so toxic Americans would never want to associate with them, help them, support them, or even listen to them.

How easy, then, to turn it into a story of racism. They were white men who were angry at the nation’s first Black president. And it worked. I believed it. I was one of those people who saw the Freedom Caucus as the backlash to Obama.

Not many people have tracked it critically. The stories about racism in the Tea Party are mostly Operation Mockingbird style. They back up the idea that they are only pretending to care about taxes, income inequality, or the size of the government. No, it has to be about the Black president. Reason-TV’s Michael Moynihan was the exception. He made this video: [video at link]

The Obama administration built its empire alongside Wall Street and Silicon Valley under what Vivek Ramaswamy calls “Woke Capitalism.” It was a way out of the mess of 2008. We began building an American utopia, or “Woketopia,” not unlike America after World War II. But to maintain their power, they needed a threat to deflect from their failings after the bank bailouts.

When Trump entered the scene, it was just as these ideas were taking root in the American psyche on the Left like a low-frequency hum that would get louder over time. The Obama birther story was floated as oppo for Hillary Clinton back in 2008, but she declined to use it. Trump then picked it up to damage Obama heading into the 2012 election.

Around 2012, critical race theory began spreading throughout public schools and universities. Black Lives Matter would mobilize not long after that. By 2016, the threat of Trump ballooned into the threat that racists were coming for our democracy.....SNIP

1 posted on 10/22/2024 5:59:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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