It's easy for him to call his opponents "radical left Marxist maniacs", because he has no understanding of political theory, so those are just words to him; he has no issue with lying, so the truth or falseness of the charge doesn't matter to him. The lasting harm is that he has permanently branded the entire responsible, patriotic Cente…
It's easy for him to call his opponents "radical left Marxist maniacs", because he has no understanding of political theory, so those are just words to him; he has no issue with lying, so the truth or falseness of the charge doesn't matter to him. The lasting harm is that he has permanently branded the entire responsible, patriotic Center-Right to Center-Left majority in the United States as political enemies who want to destroy America for the millions of people who take his word as gospel.
The change to the brains of a lot of those people is probably irreversible. Like the Confederate sympathizers of 150 years ago, they'll represent an unreconcilable group always ready to support an insurrection if given the chance for decades, that we have to keep outvoting until they finally die off.
It's easy for him to call his opponents "radical left Marxist maniacs", because he has no understanding of political theory, so those are just words to him; he has no issue with lying, so the truth or falseness of the charge doesn't matter to him. The lasting harm is that he has permanently branded the entire responsible, patriotic Center-Right to Center-Left majority in the United States as political enemies who want to destroy America for the millions of people who take his word as gospel.
The change to the brains of a lot of those people is probably irreversible. Like the Confederate sympathizers of 150 years ago, they'll represent an unreconcilable group always ready to support an insurrection if given the chance for decades, that we have to keep outvoting until they finally die off.