Exactly this. What’s wild — friends and I were talking about 3%ers the others day so I googled them to reference their self-declared ‘principles’ or whatever on a site for the Idaho chapter (as if all of Idaho isn’t a 3% chapter) and it actually states unironically:

I am in the same boat. I actually had to walk out of work on Friday (it was lunchtime, so it’s not like I just up and left) because of the way some of my coworkers were acting. One actually stood up and raised his voice, yelling about how Trump was elected and the liberal protesters need to get over it, etc. Another…

This is a nice thought until you realize that America is full of self-absorbed morons. Yes, I know this is a decidedly negative view, but the fact we could even get to this point makes me question whether enough people could ever realize what you and I do.

I feel the same. I think Trump is a spoiled brat who has had everything handed to him from birth. He’s an 80's teen movie villain. Now Bannon... That guy is evil. If he had not found a way to turn his website into an empire, I could see him being one of those people who walk into a church or a mall with a loaded…

I was talking to a friend this weekend, and he said that it’s impossible to talk with any Trump supporter about what’s happening because the supporters are “drunk on Trump”, and it’s like trying to take the car keys away from someone who is boozed up and insists they’re fine to drive.

Then you missed Susan basically saying Trump winning will cause the kind of shit storm that would be needed for people to wake up and get active.

Everyone saying Bannon is pulling the strings has started to get to him, too.

I hear that. But he’s surrounded himself with people I would call evil (esp Bannon) and is letting them lead him down the evil path.

I don’t think he’s evil, I honestly think he’s just kind of dumb. A vast swath of people praised all of his idiotic rambling so he just keeps at it, upping the ante every time until eventually he says shit that he never thought he would, just to feel like people care about him. Honestly I am starting to pity him more…

I agree. As much as I would have loved a Hillary presidency and think would have kicked ass, Congress wouldn’t be on her side (though we could argue, if she won, the Dems could possibly have the Senate). Liberal citizens would still be sitting at home doing nothing.

George Bush is not nearly the polarizing figure Donald Trump is, and even so after learning from this we may stumble back and make a few more mistakes. This is humanity.

I think the bad outcomes for most Americans will happen regardless. The tinfoil lining is that the more he looks like a buffoon, and frankly, a “loser,” the better. It’s the only way his supporters will ever actually go off him and wake up. In a cult of personality, the personality has to fail—bigly—in order for the…

Absolutely. Who wants to admit that, despite 9 months of being shown repeatedly that your choice is the worst possible choice, they chose wrong? It’s ignorance and denial. Just like the denial that their jobs ain’t coming back.

Howard Stern did an interview that was also very illuminating. Basically, he thinks that Donald is desperate to be loved and adored, and that the presidency will be detrimental to his mental health given the amount of criticism he will face.

Honestly? I think so. No one likes to admin that they were conned by a drifter.

Yes! That bit about him having to cancel the Milwaukee event due to protests is really important. He’s stuck in a house that’s too big even for him, and it’s too quiet, and he can never shake the feeling that his friends are governmenting without him. He misses the circus.

In the United States, we’ve been primed to believe that wealth comes from hard work and intelligence. Since Trump is wealthy, this line of thought goes, he must be pretty smart. And, he’s saying the things his supporters “are all thinkings”. Isn’t that what we kept being told during the campaign? “He says what I’m…

The article felt kind of Shakespearean- dude wants nothing more than love and respect, so much so he runs for President thinking that it’ll be the sure-fire way he’ll get love and respect. But upon becoming President, he finds himself neither loved or respected and is instead mainly alone, by himself, watching Cable…

So I’m surrounded at work by Trump supporters. They seem to be doubling down on their support, despite the numerous questionable moves.

Every word of that article is straight up amazing. Donald Trump is trapped in a Being There remake of his own making.