(11-04-2025 09:15 AM)Native Georgian Wrote:  The collapse of trust in mainstream institutions — “the media” is certainly one of them but you can list all the others, too — is really the main theme of US history since the 1960s. The rise of Donald Trump is kind of the ultimate rejection — an expression of pure distrust — of those institutions, by essentially one half of the nation.

What's really ironic is Trump was a Dem all his life, until he decided to run for President, and figured it would be easier to do as a Repub rather than as a Dem.

And IMO, he still isn't really a Repub. More like a populist, or even closer, a Trumpian, lol.