Weaponized Narratives and Donald Trump
Weaponized Narratives and Donald Trump There is a meme, a funny one, of Dr. Anthony Fauci trying to hold it together after Trump introduces Mike Pompeo as the head of the "Deep State Department". Apart from this being another sin that Trump supporters will ignore, this is no laughing matter. The President of the United States said it and he was serious. He wasn't joking. And this shows just how much Donald Trump hates our institutions. Republican far-righters have made a religion of painting the good things of our government bad and re-framing the bad things in our society as good. "Deplorable" is now a compliment for the radicals in the GOP. George Soros, a billionaire who is a proponent of Democracy and educating he poor, is painted as a sly James Bond-level villain who will eventually bring about the end of the western world. And even though these labels they put on Soros don't even match up with the w...