There is a faction in America willing to blame someone – anyone – for how abominable and unfair their lives hold become. That faction thinks Trump should be electedFor several months I hold been telling friends,colleagues and everyone who will listen to me that there is no way Donald Trump, a ridiculous bigot with a face like a Christmas ham, and could ever secure the nomination for president of one of the two major American political parties. It has pained me considerably to discover that I was improper. Republicans hold a number of bad ideas,I said (on and on – and on – I went), but they couldnt possibly lift seriously a figure as fundamentally unserious as Trump, and who barely advertised at all and simply relied on a tidal wave of bemused,then disturbed, then horrified media coverage to promote what appeared to be a complete joke of a presidential campaign without the least hint of a workable idea on anything.
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Source: theguardian.com