In short, over the course of what was basically an 18-month cult-of-personality political reality show, Trump enraptured and controlled the minds of voters in a way that an opponent wielding a persona as apparently loathe-worthy as Hillary Clinton's never had a chance against. It was like the extremely learning-challenged Ralph Wiggum of The Simpsons being voted National Spelling Bee winner over an auspiciously-learned wordsmith like Lisa Simpson. Not because Lisa misspelled words; she was flawless. But she enunciated her perfect spelling like a snobby patrician orthographist, while Wiggum's misguided slew of misspellings tumbled out in a way that was so much more entertaining to the judges.
And now this: America facing a slew of entirely unknown consequences based on what we already know, and others stemming from things we are just finding out. Such as the reports that the guy chosen by Americans to run their country seemed "stunningly ignorant" about the basics of the presidency until informed so by our current president. In other words, the guy up next for president barely qualifies for a job as a presidential "apprentice."
It's frightening developments like these that do little to dispel the notion that as a species, human beings are nowhere near evolved to the point at which rational decision-making -- a trait which supposedly distinguishes us homo-sapiens from the lower-species -- is a given.
However, since politically correct speech in this nascent "Era of Trumpism" is the terminology of obvious losers, in keeping with the times a spade must now be called a spade. Therefore, the PC-inclined among us need no longer softly-describe those people who've only further slowed the evolutionary process as "low-info" or "under-informed" Trump supporters. It's now okay to use bad-ass, no-holds-barred Age of Trump terminology to call them exactly what they are.
"Idiots."
It would be foolish to dismiss this assessment as partisan liberal teeth-gnashing. To do so is to overlook the 63.6 million(as of this writing) Americans of all political persuasions who had the nation's best interest in mind when they voted against Trump. As it is, the word idiot-- in terms of how it ranks on any Era of Trump insult scale -- probably still qualifies as "weak" politically correct speech. Which perhaps makes sense, actually. After all, if one must choose, it's perhaps preferable to be called out as a mindless idiot than as a fire-breathing racist.
Sore winners
Semantics aside, "Trumpism" is fittingly described as an ugly 21st century American bowel movement that has transformed the country's fruited plains into a raging cesspool of racial hatred culminating -- on November 8 according to CNN's Van Jones -- in a "white-lash" at the polls.
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