This Surprise Started With Another One: How Similar Trump & Biden Had Become
The public’s engagement with the 2024 presidential election has been one of the most cynical and checked-out in modern American history. Trump’s cynicism has been more obvious, for longer — he is attracting millions of disaffected Americans who believe our ideals of representative governance should be tossed aside. His attempts to refuse a peaceful transfer of power have attracted cynical people who have fully abandoned trust in the system itself. Trump’s cynicism is the chaotic, will-to-power kind — “the system isn’t for us, so we’ll remake it in our image, or destroy it.”
The public’s engagement with the 2024 presidential election has been one of the most cynical and checked-out in modern American history. Trump’s cynicism has been more obvious, for longer — he is attracting millions of disaffected Americans who believe our ideals of representative governance should be tossed aside. His attempts to refuse a peaceful transfer of power have attracted cynical people who have fully abandoned trust in the system itself. Trump’s cynicism is the chaotic, will-to-power kind — “the system isn’t for us, so we’ll remake it in our image, or destroy it.”
This Surprise Started With Another One: How Similar Trump & Biden Had Become
The public’s engagement with the 2024 presidential election has been one of the most cynical and checked-out in modern American history. Trump’s cynicism has been more obvious, for longer — he is attracting millions of disaffected Americans who believe our ideals of representative governance should be tossed aside. His attempts to refuse a peaceful transfer of power have attracted cynical people who have fully abandoned trust in the system itself. Trump’s cynicism is the chaotic, will-to-power kind — “the system isn’t for us, so we’ll remake it in our image, or destroy it.”