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Trump’s mass movement is bigger than ever!
Cultural Revolution in America
Mass movement (noun)
an organized effort by a large number of people, especially those not forming part of the elite of a given society, to bring about pervasive changes in existing social, economic, or political institutions, frequently characterized by charismatic leadership.
At the time of writing this, Trump has so far received 8.3 million more votes than he did in 2016. That’s the exact opposite of what pollsters and political journalists claimed would happen. On the contrary, there’s been much talk of Trump losing support among his base and how weak the Republican Party had become for riding the Trump Train.
Like the rest of us, these 8.3 million people have lived through the last four years of Trump’s presidency and its countless scandals. Like the rest of us, they know exactly what Trump stands for. And yet, they decided they wanted more of it — so much so that they voted for the first time in their lives or abandoned the Democratic Party, as it’s now known that many Latino, Hispanic Americans, and Black voters did. And there’s no excuse. This isn’t 2016, when Trump was seen as a protest candidate and a big middle finger to the Washington establishment. It’s 2020, he’s the incumbent now, and we all know what we’ll get with another Trump term.