Comment by throw0101a

> I don’t wonder anymore [how Trump won twice]. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.

> If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.

[…]

> If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.

[…]

> Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”

* https://minocquabrewingcompanytimes.substack.com/p/the-thing...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jochum (?)

(AFAICT, originally posted on Facebook, but I don’t have an account so can’t really search it.)