I think, Lumpy, you underestimate the sheer bloody-minded stupidity of a sizable contingent in the US. The same stupidity that is being imported here, that you can witness on websites like politicaliirish and arsefields and the whole so called "nationalist" scene recently witnessed on these shores.
This gobshite "Thor", held up by the greatest fools on those same fora as another savvy so called day trader who made "a fortune", the same as "Young Dan" across the way (recalling how posters on these boards were assisted by the Mowl to see through that Walter Mitty and his claimed fortune and claimed incredible trading success.)
Just like all the other suckers, "doing his own research" on the Internet. And following a similar trajectory not surprisingly also another sucker for Trump's bullshit. - You see just like when they're "trading" they say, "
... this time will be different, the collapse is finally here...", that is the same mode by which they easily believe Trump when he says,
"... look last time I didn't deliver but, trust me, next time I will..."
Yes, in the US there is a very very large collection of suckers who can be fooled twice by the very same person and in the very same circumstances. It's not just that they have wet dreams all over his talk and policies of isolationism and "walls" and the rest of it. Or that they are truly stupid enough to think he saved all the children from sexual slavery on elites’ secret islands and pizza shops, and so on.
No, it's that they seem to actually relish the cognitive dissonance there is between believing his lies and seeing what he actually does.
See for example how he expanded the deficit by 70% per annum, even before Covid, in spite of promising to reduce it. Or, in spite of his talk, how he actually fought against the Fed when it started raising rates,
in favour of deficit financing and demanded they take the interest rate to zero. Or look how he talked up anti-interventionism on the campaign trail, and then he went and hired fucking John Bolton and other extreme hawks.
Never mind how he offered personal favours to dictators and was even willing to intervene in criminal investigations to do so (
as John Bolton later detailed after he fell out with Trump).
All this wasn’t for the benefit of the average American. No, it was plainly for the benefit of large business interests, and keeping in mind his own property speculation is built on a mountain of debt.
The best way of understanding it I think is Trump supporters are basically WWE wrestling fans. They judge presidents based upon a WWE type of entertainment, i.e., the shit talking before the fight.
In this country it is the likes of completely brainless specimens like Valamhic who support him, railing against what they call "woke anti-Trump hysteria". Clearly it's the likes of Val who are hysterical. And dumb as a bag of bricks. Everyone else is just plain appalled at the whole phenomenon, the whole spectacle that is Trump.
Trump represents everything that is wrong with America, and that is flooding in here as well through the subsea Atlantic cables. Noting you have others like DeSantis following in Trump's footsteps, hoping to play the same game, having seen that it is a winning game in the current America.
You don't have to be a libtard or commie to make these basic observations.