The one bit of credit that I can give him is that he’s good at making people feel seen. At his rallies, he’ll ramble on about how awful things are, and then he’ll say something like “I see you, I see that you’re hurting. I’m going to fix it”. It’s hardly the peak of rhetoric, but it’s super effective when so many people are struggling but the system is constantly gaslighting them because “the economy is doing great 👍”.

I find it sad, because the people most likely to latch onto this are people who are most being fucked over by the system. Often hatred starts as a seed of fear for one’s circumstances. I wish they would see that Trump is just exploiting them all the more.