(12-16-2020, 10:05 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: The people who hate Trump are willing to look the other way in this instance, because they want a return to the norm, but that's not the real problem. Trump isn't the cause of the disease, he's a symptom of it.

I agree Trump is best understood as a symptom of a disease.
The disease is a breakdown of social trust.
Society and technology are changing rapidly, and these changes are inevitable. But with very little social trust, people feel like they are going to victims rather than beneficiaries of these changes.
On the right you find a whole cottage industry of hucksters profiting off reducing social trust; Limbaugh is the godfather of them all but there are many more now. But the effects are deeper on the left.  Polls consistently show that people on the left feel more hate towards people who disagree with them.

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