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.
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.