Let’s pull back the curtain on the great and terrible Oz. Oh, look! It’s Donald Trump, and he’s a car salesman.
A car salesman’s job is to make you believe you are getting the best car there is. Necessarily, this has to be untrue somewhere north of 99.9 percent of the time, so he talks to you to understand your fondest dreams and then proceeds to convince you that this car will make those dreams come true.
What the great and terrible Trump has learned is that people to the right of center are really sick and tired of the last few decades of having their consciousness raised into a realization that some of what they have been saying and doing to people who are unlike themselves is offensive, bigoted and harmful. So they have relabeled this knowledge political correctness so they can view it as bad and are ready to follow anyone who promises to free them from their guilt. Roar says the great and terrible Trump.
“Trump says it like it is,” which is electionese for “He says what makes me feel like my moral laziness is perfectly fine.” He can’t deliver on any of his promises because the car is a lemon. He is selling himself — a fast-talking thief whose only skill is learning what you want to hear and saying it. For him, this is a huge experiment in discovering how easily people can be gulled. Undoubtedly, he considers us all idiots. Maybe he’s right.
Harold R. Pettus
Everett
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