Putin’s using the internet to convince 40% of Americans to destroy America will be the single political masterstroke of our era, one which will be studied for the next 500 years. Vladimir Putin bet his life that American voters would be weak and decadent enough to return Donald Trump to the presidency. He was right.
Trumps biggest supporters know the least about him. They brag endlessly about how much TV and internet news they watch/read, and yet, they still remain fundamentally ignorant of almost everything about Trump. Or they know and just play dumb. That’s a level of ignorance you just can't fight.
There are only three possible explanations as to why Americans voted for this man:
They wanted what he promised;
They didn’t believe what he promised; or
They didn’t understand what he promised.
Pick whichever rationale you want, because it doesn’t matter. Whatever the reason was, it exposed half of the electorate. The 77 million people who voted for Trump were exposed as either fundamentally unserious, decadent, or weak. And no empire can survive the degeneration of its people.
Trump is into breaking things. It ends when everything is broken. The pendulum swings until someone with a hammer and nail sticks it to the wall.