Raw Story - (archived: https://archive.ph/aI4kC ) The sickening secret sauce to Trump's political success

By D. Earl Stephens - Commentary
April 11, 2025 7:53AM ET

THE ANSWER: Racism.

THE QUESTION: How in the hell did we get here?

There is no other way to explain the American-attacking Trump’s rise to power, and most important, his ability to hold onto it despite being easily the stupidest, most dishonest, and openly bigoted man to ever step foot in our White House.

Just four years after trying to take a blowtorch to our votes, he is busy incinerating our life’s savings, and making measles great again, yet tens of millions of Americans are still stubbornly standing in his corner no matter what.

And I am not talking about the millionaires and billionaires who have gobs of money to gain while these markets are intentionally shorted, either. I am talking about Joe and Jane America, who are watching their retirement savings go up in smoke. I am talking about farmer Fred, whose Trump sign that he has defiantly planted in his field is now worth more than the crops he is growing at a loss.

I am talking about people who you know, and maybe even live with.

Go ahead and say what you want about this wretched, burnt-orange monster (please), but it's your friends and family who still support him who are to blame for this terrible, terrible mess we are in right now.

Without them, there is no him.

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