I only knew of Trump as that rich New Yorker, the one with the different wives on the covers of the tabloids and "wasn't he involved in wrestling at some point?"
When the lefties in my social circle started calling him Hitler, I was a bit confused but also intrigued. That guy?? Where were they getting that idea from? And since they were the type of people who were wrong about just about everything, I had to check things out.
Their reactions were so over-the-top that it made the whole thing far more interesting for me, from a psychological point of view. What was driving all that hyperbole?
Fear. They needed to create fear to drive people away, and against Trump. Remember early on, Hillary said Trump would start WW3 with Russia. Being a Clinton, their internal polling data must have said that wasn't resonating with voters, so they switched it to Trump being in too close to Putin, and basically a Russian asset. That's what they ran with. That's why they created all the fake Russia Russia Russia BS. They needed to create fear, and the fear of Trump being the enemy within worked, for many.
Thing is, they know all about the enemy within, because it is them. They know it is them. They have always been the enemy within. Projecting it onto Trump was easy, because they knew all the nefarious details and ins and outs of being that enemy within. That's how they could convince so many people Trump was that enemy. He was the one to be feared. He would be a dictator. Worse than Hitler.
Now, years later, they want to go to that playbook again. I just can't see as many people falling for it, again. People are seeing who the real threat is. More and more, every day, people are slowly waking up.
Trump was never a threat to start wars, and he was certainly never the enemy within. That enemy is, and has been, the DC establishment.
Great comment. Similar route for me too. My late mother lived in the north of Scotland, long before he announced his 2016 run. At that time, he was a major thorn in the side of Alex Salmond, then First Minister of Scotland with the far left Scottish National Party, over a links golf course and other investments DJT was making. For a certain Scottish demographic, this was a very entertaining spat. My mom loved Trump and especially how he goaded the SNP leadership and media etc. I didn’t know much about him but found it funny how much she loved the ways this brash iconoclast was annoying the SNP. Fast forward a couple of years and in the run up to 2016 and the 4 years that followed, I shit you not: she was so rabidly afflicted by TDS, it was actually quite unsettling. The golf course thing went quiet (Trump mostly got his own way with it, of course) but because she was an old lady who watched TV all day every day, especially news from BBC, Sky etc, it was like she had become possessed by the media. Brainwashed doesn’t explain it - she had been completely programmed. This was Invasion of the Bodysnatchers-level shit. She would not hear a good or even reasonable or neutral word said about him. He was Hitler-Satan. From that point, and from the perspective of “what the hell has this guy done to turn my mother into this seething and disturbingly angry old lady?”, that’s really where my full on great awakening kicked in for real.
It’s the narrative.
Rachel Maddow, Seth Meyers, Joe Manchin etc all going with the “Trump is going full dictator if he wins”.
So the dnc has zero platforms aside from… don’t vote for orange man bad, life will get worse ( really? 🤣)
They said that last time as well. How did that "Full dictator" work out? People need to stop falling for the BS.
I only knew of Trump as that rich New Yorker, the one with the different wives on the covers of the tabloids and "wasn't he involved in wrestling at some point?"
When the lefties in my social circle started calling him Hitler, I was a bit confused but also intrigued. That guy?? Where were they getting that idea from? And since they were the type of people who were wrong about just about everything, I had to check things out.
Their reactions were so over-the-top that it made the whole thing far more interesting for me, from a psychological point of view. What was driving all that hyperbole?
Fear. They needed to create fear to drive people away, and against Trump. Remember early on, Hillary said Trump would start WW3 with Russia. Being a Clinton, their internal polling data must have said that wasn't resonating with voters, so they switched it to Trump being in too close to Putin, and basically a Russian asset. That's what they ran with. That's why they created all the fake Russia Russia Russia BS. They needed to create fear, and the fear of Trump being the enemy within worked, for many.
Thing is, they know all about the enemy within, because it is them. They know it is them. They have always been the enemy within. Projecting it onto Trump was easy, because they knew all the nefarious details and ins and outs of being that enemy within. That's how they could convince so many people Trump was that enemy. He was the one to be feared. He would be a dictator. Worse than Hitler.
Now, years later, they want to go to that playbook again. I just can't see as many people falling for it, again. People are seeing who the real threat is. More and more, every day, people are slowly waking up.
Trump was never a threat to start wars, and he was certainly never the enemy within. That enemy is, and has been, the DC establishment.
leftards only call people names because they have no facts.
Great comment. Similar route for me too. My late mother lived in the north of Scotland, long before he announced his 2016 run. At that time, he was a major thorn in the side of Alex Salmond, then First Minister of Scotland with the far left Scottish National Party, over a links golf course and other investments DJT was making. For a certain Scottish demographic, this was a very entertaining spat. My mom loved Trump and especially how he goaded the SNP leadership and media etc. I didn’t know much about him but found it funny how much she loved the ways this brash iconoclast was annoying the SNP. Fast forward a couple of years and in the run up to 2016 and the 4 years that followed, I shit you not: she was so rabidly afflicted by TDS, it was actually quite unsettling. The golf course thing went quiet (Trump mostly got his own way with it, of course) but because she was an old lady who watched TV all day every day, especially news from BBC, Sky etc, it was like she had become possessed by the media. Brainwashed doesn’t explain it - she had been completely programmed. This was Invasion of the Bodysnatchers-level shit. She would not hear a good or even reasonable or neutral word said about him. He was Hitler-Satan. From that point, and from the perspective of “what the hell has this guy done to turn my mother into this seething and disturbingly angry old lady?”, that’s really where my full on great awakening kicked in for real.