The Moment of Truth | The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.

That's how cults work. Those on the inside are either unable or unwilling to see the reality of things. Those on the outside wonder how they cannot.

Many have isolated themselves (at Trump's direction) to a media ecosystem where they aren't being exposed to the truth about him. And when they are, he's trained them to believe that it's all lies. They are living in an entirely alternate reality crafted for them by Fox (and other rightwing outlets), Truth Social, and Trump and his congressional cronies.

I have family members who've been living in that world for years. Parroting the Fox talking points and praising Trump for what they portray him as. Like cults do, over time these things have become part of their identity...even their faith. It's not easy to do a 180 on that. To them, it would be unthinkable to ever vote for a Democrat because that would be counter to who they are as a person. It would also be unthinkable to them that a Democrat could ever even be worthy of voting for, given all the things they've been "taught" about the Democrats. To them, I'm the crazy one for suggesting things might be different from what they're hearing. They are trapped in a cult.

All that being said...the longer it goes, I think the scale is shifting from "they haven't been exposed to the truth" to "willful ignorance of the the truth". That really wears on my patience for them and I find myself thinking at times that there's no excuse anymore. But I also have to remind myself how difficult it is to extract someone from a cult. And I remember that I knew these people before Trump...and they are GOOD people with good hearts. But they've been fooled so very thoroughly by Trumpism and what it promised them.

I'm angrier at Fox, Newsmax, OAN, and all of the elected officials who've propped Trump up and peddled his brand than I am at his supporters who've been fooled by them. Without them, Trump is nothing. He could have been a laughing stock that we would have just moved on from if they hadn't championed him, lied about him and his opponents, sanitized his worst moments, etc.They truly have shaped their viewer's minds about Trump and about the Democrats. It's enraging.

Exactly. The guard rails that kept Trump in check and protected democracy in his first term will not be there for his second. They are making sure of that.

If he gets in its 4 years suck it up and move on. Then in 4years time campaign harder against him. Thats how democracy works.

What a terrible take. This is either an incredibly uninformed opinion, or a Trump troll not arguing in good faith.

Last time trump was in i made lots of $$$ on my stocks. A trade war with china is kinda nessasary if u have seen their human rights record. There has been more government censorship with biden than there was with trump. Im not aware of the ethnic clensing trump has proposed (unless u mean leaving ukraine to die?) id like a source pls.

Democracy does not enforce ethics or morals in enforces the opinions of the majority. For example hamus is a democraticly ellected government and terrorist organisation they are simply enforcing the majority opinion of the Palestinian people. Israel has a democraticly elected government and are enforcing the majority opinion of the Israeli people. Both sides are responsible for human rights atrocities and sometimes thats just how democracy works.

I dont think so. There is so much money from companies and countries across the globe that relies on a stable democracy to hold their money (hence the global reserve currency). America is simply to big to fail.