Trump became a god to that entire swath of willfully ignorant racist Americans, way back when he first attacked sitting President Obama for not being an American citizen.

Trump used the same tactic against Obama that he always uses. The same tactic he perfected in all his ridiculously public feuds with people like Rosie O'Donnell. It's simple: The more audacious the accusation, the more press coverage it gets. The bigger the lie, the more it gets repeated.

In a certain way, I still think of the entire MAGA movement as payback for America electing a Black man to be President in 2008. And I'm still shocked to think even before 2008, there must have always been that much anger and hate and fear there, among my fellow Americans. But the hate was quieter before Trump, and easier not to see unless you were looking for it.

But that's why I think Trump is so much more dangerous than DeSantis, or any other wannabe strongman autocrat). Trump's already tapped into all that pent-up American hate years ago, and Trump's completely owned it ever since. As demonstrated countless times already, he controls that hate and can use it to make his followers do or say literally anything.

I think he'd be worse. He's a little smarter than trump.

He would be easy worse. But he would never win so in a way he would be better. The fact that we even discuss Trump having a chance to be elected is extremely sad.

The maga idiots still backing him are why it works like this.

Do you know some? If so, please for the love of democracy, find a way to smack them back into reality. There’s got to be a conversation you can have that will get through. Read up on psychology and be creative.

e: We have to rely on you because nothing else is working.

Aaaah! He said the word!