It’s not ‘interesting,’ it is change. Yes Trump 2 also promised change and proved himself to somewhat be an agent of chaos. When people experienced the Biden years and their lives just kept getting worse by ‘returning to normal politics,’ they were willing to burn down the US instead of dealing with normal politics again.
People largely didn’t support Trump because he is racist or interesting or what have you; but simply because the worst case scenario is the destruction of the US government, and the best case scenario is something that is not the same shit that has crushed them, their parents, and their grand parents for as long as they’ve been alive.
Trump correctly identified ‘the swamp,’ or the ‘deep state,’ or the idea that there is an embedded rot that exists in the US ruling class that exists solely to crush the working class. That there are people and groups explicitly working to make sure the rich stay rich, the poor stay poor, and that the law binds the latter and is disregarded by the former without consequence. He literally told on himself and his homies, but attributed it to just the government instead of the entirety of capital.
This resonates with people. Even if he is also a part of capital, he is at worst incompetent and will do enough damage to capital that the average worker might end up better. At the very least Capital would be hurt like the working class has been hurt.
That is an objectively better outcome than returning to normal politics. That is objectively better for most people than ‘we’d be at brunch.’
It’s not ‘interesting,’ it is change. Yes Trump 2 also promised change and proved himself to somewhat be an agent of chaos. When people experienced the Biden years and their lives just kept getting worse by ‘returning to normal politics,’ they were willing to burn down the US instead of dealing with normal politics again.
People largely didn’t support Trump because he is racist or interesting or what have you; but simply because the worst case scenario is the destruction of the US government, and the best case scenario is something that is not the same shit that has crushed them, their parents, and their grand parents for as long as they’ve been alive.
Trump correctly identified ‘the swamp,’ or the ‘deep state,’ or the idea that there is an embedded rot that exists in the US ruling class that exists solely to crush the working class. That there are people and groups explicitly working to make sure the rich stay rich, the poor stay poor, and that the law binds the latter and is disregarded by the former without consequence. He literally told on himself and his homies, but attributed it to just the government instead of the entirety of capital.
This resonates with people. Even if he is also a part of capital, he is at worst incompetent and will do enough damage to capital that the average worker might end up better. At the very least Capital would be hurt like the working class has been hurt.
That is an objectively better outcome than returning to normal politics. That is objectively better for most people than ‘we’d be at brunch.’