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I’m someone who’s freely criticized both major parties in the past and will certainly do so in the future, but the Democratic Party wasn’t the one stirring its base into a frenzied bloodlust about jailing and executing the opponent, or crafting outlandish conspiracies like saying the opponent murdered people.

What’s overlooked is that even if Trump (the man) is soundly defeated, Trump (the idea) will live on. His popularity among the extreme right of he Republican base isn’t because he’s some “self made” billionaire has incredible media instincts. His popularity is based on being a self-contained echo chamber, telling

These are a bunch of scared old white men who horde guns to protect themselves from blacks, Muslims and Mexicans. There won’t be a violent uprising because that means they’d have to go outside where there could be blacks, Muslims and Mexicans.

Easy. Your country is full of terrified, racist, sexist assholes.

I’m sure they’ll declare it over and over again on message boards far and wide. And then they won’t do anything in the real world.