Ask A Genius 125 – Trump Administration Possibility One
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/03/22
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Rick Rosner: Alright, so now we have this rise in antisemitism as part of the reign dumbassery that goes along with Trump, as what I hope is the culmination of 30, 40 years of tenderizing dumb conservatives’ thinking via easy manipulation and the dumbing down of media targeting conservatives, you have proudly ignorant—tens of millions of proudly ignorant—conservatives feeling pride and strength.
63 million people voted for Trump. Not all of them are these belligerently ignorant jerkwads. When Hillary talked about “deplorables,” she said half of them are jerkwads. Maybe, somebody can do a survey sometime and can do the breakdown sometime. I know people who voted for Trump who are decent people, but voted and are holding their nose because of economic reasons and some of the attacks policies.
I’m sure that more than 10 million of the people who voted for Trump really dislike Trump and feel really sad every day when sad stuff happens. But those people aside, principles Trump votes, non-jerk Trump voters, leave them out, you have 30 or 40 million jokes, and they reinforce each other on social media, and everybody who is not these people—not everybody—feel that Trump or hope that people who voted for Trump have overreached and will collapse.
The racism and the antisemitism will burnout and collapse under human decency before things get worse. And it might because Trump is doing surprisingly worse at his job than almost anybody anticipated. Trump collapses, if, we can hope that it will mean a flywheel of nationalism and intolerance that is energizing 20-40 million jerks will slow down.
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