There are some, still, it seems, who really, really do believe everything they read in the papers. You can tell who these people are by the dazed look in their eyes at the mere mention of Trump.
These people are the suckers up of conventional wisdom. It is all they know, and all that they will ever know. When intelligent looking, and sounding, pundits smugly proclaimed that Trump was just flash in the pan, these people, these ‘suckers up of conventional wisdom,’ accepted that … often in some kind of weird self-congratulatory manner.
Then, of course, there are the others. Those who actually pay attention to what is going on ‘out there’ – on the ground – in the world … those who are not willing to let themselves in zombie like fashion fall prey to pundit-brainwashing.
These are the people who knew – and understood why – there was heaps and heaps of anger and frustration in the ranks of the citizenry … and who were not surprised at all when the Trump thingy took flight.
Sadly, however, sucking up conventional wisdom syndrome [SUCWS] may be incurable. So, today, these sufferers continue to buy into nonsense such as, ‘The reason Trump is doing so well is that all his followers are so dumb.
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