Ultimately, it’s the Republiklan base who have created Dump. He received billions of dollars of free air time because people tuned and watched him. That helped networks build an audience for advertising dollars. The “establishment” has been dog whistling his themes – racism, xenophobia, faux-fascism, etc. – for decades (since Goldwater) to lay the emotional foundation. And now, people feel free to say the most outrageous, horrible things and are willing to blow up the country just because. Carmen, we have met the enemy and it’s us.
Ultimately, it’s the Republiklan base who have created Dump. He received billions of dollars of free air time because people tuned and watched him. That helped networks build an audience for advertising dollars. The “establishment” has been dog whistling his themes – racism, xenophobia, faux-fascism, etc. – for decades (since Goldwater) to lay the emotional foundation. And now, people feel free to say the most outrageous, horrible things and are willing to blow up the country just because. Carmen, we have met the enemy and it’s us.