Trump is a Creep. So, Why is He So Popular?
It’s the biggest question this election year
As I read the news each morning, I’m mentally scratching my head over this one. One of our candidates is about as big a sleaze ball as you’ll find in any public figure, and that is saying a lot.
The list of negatives is almost too long to list here. The misogyny. The lack of any loyalty to anyone other than himself. The endless pitching of junk adorned with his image. The middle of the night social rants about imagined insults and plots against him. The string of childish nicknames for enemies and friends. The infidelity. The endless lies, some 70,000 since being elected in 2016. His support for murderous dictators. The endless lawsuits.
Herein lies the mystery. Until Trump won in 2016, helped by Hillary Clinton’s inept and tone deaf campaign, he was largely seen as an egotistic fool and a reality TV star. Then he won, promised miraculous fixes for all the problems of the country, and then accomplished none of them except a huge tax cut for the very wealthy that nearly bankrupted our government.
Tiny sections of his vaunted wall were all that was built at the southern border. His recurring promise that something called Infrastructure Week would be here soon that never materialized. His recommendation that we inject…
