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Amazing that one arsehole bloke has managed to make every single normal person’s life measurably worse, all around the world.
The Great Men theory of history is wrong, but the Massive Cunts theory of history is holding up pretty well. #Trump
Yes for sure he was an abnormally effective avatar. I guess you could say that’s the distinction between a great asshole or a great person vs regular ones!
I would also argue that a great asshole has the potential to turn his asshole supporters into even greater assholes with time.
As an example I would say whoever ran the QAnon conspiracy changed a lot of people. On the QAnon casualties subreddit there were lots of people writing how their family members who beforehand were just “normal” republicans suddenly turned into absolutely bat shit insane conspiracy theorists after falling down that rabbit hole. Without that external exposure they would never have ended up in that state.
Crazy religious cults are often intentionally designed like this. Scientology for example had the whole aliens thing hidden from new initiates. You had to be part of the cult for a certain amount of time before learning about those “inner parts” probably because if you started out day 1 with the whole aliens bit people would see the bullshit for what it was but exposed gradually they accept it.
I think a lot of that also applies to the maga movement. I think we can all agree that Trump was always bad. But I also think most can agree that its only gotten worse with time. As trump gets more and more insane his supporters, who refuse to admit they were wrong about him, have to constantly double down and accept and support whatever he is doing, constantly turning his supporters views worse with time.