I agree about the slow process. I never trusted the mainstream doctrine of climate change, and I was aware that leftism was at the heart of many insane things around the world.

In 2016 I began loosely following the RNC nomination process mostly so I could sneer about the election of someone like Trump, who I only thought of as a womanizing blowhard.

Then I came across a video of Trump appearing on one of the late night shows, and I realized that he was actually a very smart guy.

He pulled off the RNC nomination, and I really didn't like Hillary, so I began to hope that he could pull off his impossible.

My real wake up was on the morning of September 12, 2016. The previous day Hillary had just been chucked into the back of the van like a side of beef, and the MSM was trying to downplay the seriousness of her condition.

It was clear that the story the MSM was putting out didn't match with the video that surfaced later in the day. My thought was that it was just the media outlets being political during election season. That's why, although I don't usually watch the news in the morning, I decided to watch a Canadian news station to see how they reported on the story since they wouldn't have a political axe to grind.

I was gobsmacked when the lady reporting the news started to say what actually happened (I can't remember exactly what word she began to say) and then stopped mid-word and changed to the lie that was being propagated by the US MSM.

At that point it dawned on me how deep and wide the problem was. Then the Podesta emails came out...