Trump keeps reminding me that he really does have a dangerously authoritarian outlook and temperament, lack of respect for the rule of law, and no appreciation of our basic fundamental rights as set forth in the Bill of Rights, and just why those rights are so important to a civil and fair society. It's quite frightening actually that so many Americans seem OK with all of this.
But they don't care, because not only has he successfully scapegoated certain ethnic groups for all of America's problems, he "tells it like it is", or actually him just telling them what he thinks they want to hear. Unfortunate that they don't realize that Trump will very likely have negative long-term consequences for their party's viability.
Trump will be unlikely to be elected, but he has started conversations about topics which were previously off the table due to political correctness.
Politicians after Trump will refine and distill the policies he introduced in a more palatable form.
"Telling it like it is" to me sounds more like "Why can't we talk about issues that really need to be talked about."
One of the recent failings of the Obama administration is the inability to talk about topics which are front and centre in the minds of US citizens.
