I’m with you on this one, oagre.
What I do think is positive is Trump’s unique ability to create conversation, in that it’s gotten a lot more people in US and to some extent, Canada, interested in the news again. And luckily the vast majority that I interact with IRL are reading or listening to high-quality journalism. This can only bode well for the world when things change again.
Sure, there are plenty of Trump fans watching Fox, reading Breitbart or listening to Alex Jones, but while the centre-right to the moderate left are getting ‘woke,’ the moderate to far-right are listening to complete monkey shit. ‘Infotainment’ or ‘propaganda’ is closer than ‘tabloid journalism’ for whatever the (alt or mainstream) right is calling their milk.
I was in the airport a bunch over the past couple few days, and probably had 10 conversations where even soft-Trump supporters were laughing at ‘Spygate’ or the DPRK ‘flip-flop,’ in-particular about how Trump was so transparently trying to flip the narrative.
Trump’s wackiness and dumbfoolery encourages conversation. What the ‘exclamation point crew’ is confused about is tone. I love comedies because it’s fun to watch bad things come to bad people. The Trump-experiment is no different.
Trump has managed to divide the country along intellectual lines, and history tells us who eventually prevails in that fight.