To Errol is Human

Think about who some of Trump's main supporters were--white middle class and lower middle class men who live in the Red States.  Imagine you are one of these men and you’re not able to work enough to provide for your family. It’s humiliating. Your self-respect inevitably will take a nosedive. Add to that your disappointment in your government and how betrayed you feel. That’s gonna make you really angry. If you combine that with low self-respect, you end up picking a Donald-Trump-type. (more on how that works later). While many Trump supporters have said that they weren’t so much voting for Trump as they were voting against Hillary Clinton – Trump being the lesser of two evils--they could have chosen one of the other dozen Republican candidates, but they didn't. They picked Trump, or more precisely, Trump's vibe.   If Tolstoy is correct in suggesting that the nature and the quality of our leaders emerges out of the consciousness of the people, we will ...