Remember when Glen Beck had his own show on Fox News and every day he would go on about the left wing progressives and how evil they were? He had his chalkboard and all his visuals. Everyday angry or crying about how our country is going down the tubes. Then there was Sean Hannity who pretty much didn't hold back how he felt about the progressives. And of course there was Rush Limbaugh, always angry about something. Add to that Alex Jones and Michael Savage on you tube and radio. And then there's kooky Sarah.
The party then split into the Tea Party and the so called "Rhinos." I personally felt that because I didn't agree with the tea party, that although I have been a Republican my whole adult life, I was now deemed one in name only and therefore not a true member of the party. So ok. Whatever. There was no longer any room for moderates in the Republican party.
So what did they think was going to happen? Someone like Trump comes along and all these people that have been listening to the above named personalities glob onto him like he's the second coming. They've been listening to the anger way before Trump came along. So no one should really be surprised.
But - are the things he's saying wrong? Don't we want jobs to come back to America? Don't we want this country to be what it once was? Don't we have a right to secure our boarders just like every other country can?
Today I read that Trump doesn't feel that he needs to tone down his campaign. Of course he doesn't, its what's gotten him to where he is now. He's even willing to act like he doesn't know who David Duke is so not to lose any supporters. Everything he's doing is very calculated. I think he likes the violence in his rallies. If he didn't, he would have already directed his supporters to behave but he hasn't. And by the way - he has everything to do with what's going on in his rallies. I hear pundits trying to spin that the other way but come on. Let's just be honest.
Clearly this country has been split for a long time but now it seems like its more quartered. There's the leftist progressives, the radical right, the moderates and whatever the centrist democrats are called. And I believe there are some. We like to think that after the general election, that this country will unite but that's not going to happen.
So what do we do? I don't know. I suppose keep putting the lipstick on that pig for now.
