- Oct 20, 2022
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I certainly don’t think he is an anti-authority figure at all really - I think that is a facade and an expedient narrative he has manufactured - Trump loves the power of authority providing it’s his own and is basically anti anything that doesn’t line his own pocket or feeds his narcissistic appetite for adulation. He is just not a conviction politician.I guess we have this idea that he is some kind of anti-authority figure. Which I get but really struggle to see him as anything other than part of the establishment he is supposed to be fighting.
Alongside this it appears to be mainly that he is not Biden, which I also get but there are 350 million people in the USA how has it come down to these two?
Biden has had support as a politician for many years and his popularity continued as Obama’s VEEP. However, imo he has lost support of young voters because of his age and the dems failure to get across to the electorate his achievements while in his first term - I think it more a case of people supporting Biden because he is not Trump now rather than for positive reasons - As for why Trump has such a large following, I can’t really fathom the phenomenon of Trumpism other than, in similar ways to Margret Thatcher, he is a demagogue who has appealed to people’s darker angels ( such as their prejudices) and their focus toward ‘self’ rather than relying on rational argument in the pursuit of power.