Trumpism is Just The Next Stage of Symptoms in a Failing Democracy
It started with the Tea Party, and it will far outlast the legacy of its current namesake.
It has nothing to do with actual politics, but it’s a political ideology. For as much as they chanted “build that wall,” it wasn’t ever really about restrictive immigration policies either. In fact, it has nothing to do with economics or trade or foreign relations or any of that government stuff.
It’s a culture war.
A culture war that didn’t even start with its namesake, Donald Trump.
The faction we see playing out right now, some could argue, is the natural progression of the Tea Party Movement. Trumpism is just the next stage of symptoms in a failing democracy. But we call it Trumpism because, even though the behavior and ideology was already here, Donald Trump — failed former blogger, subpar businessman, and urine test kit seller — rolled out the red carpet for it and promised gullible audiences a good show.
Like the Tea Party in 2010, those who practice Trumpism are unreasonably angry at all the wrong targets. These are the people who believed former President Barack Obama was a despotic dictator. They’re the same people who now find themselves waiting around in Dealey Plaza for…
