One problem I think is transparently clear having been on both sides of it is that the way Trump speaks is itself a problem. It's almost like you have to relax to listen to him, or you will hear things as being far worse than they really are.
People who "support" him, or who really support him, see this and think he's funny, though they wish he were a bit better spoken (usually) and more clear. Some few might, in the present insanity, need a LOT of calming down, which he never provides, but most don't. Most get it.
On the other hand, since all of the left thinks he's literally a tyrant or a Nazi and have done since they just made it up out of thin air in 2015, they hear that every time and have worked themselves up into a self-congratulatory tizzy for believing it instead of the opposite.
I don't know if Trump is neurotypical enough to be let off the hook for how he speaks. I don't know why he does it. No one does. Maybe it's something he picked up. Maybe it's a disorder. Maybe it's something else. The left never once tried to cool that fire, though.
For whatever reason, whether conspiratorial, psychological, sociological, or something even more basic, the left has done nothing for 5 years except congratulate itself for wrongly believing the man is a tyrant and then finding "evidence" of it out of mere suggestions.
A whole cultural industry (full of media lucre) arose to reward and award left-leaning and never-Trump conservative types for the most egregious and tendentious proofs that the man is a lunatic tyrant, and it was genuinely as close to a real circle-jerk as "polite society" gets.
This is why so many people, including Trump, rightly identify that whatever's going on with our media-intellectual-industrial complex and whatever politicians are using them to their own advantage are the nexus of the problem in the West. They are playing dice with democracy.
I don't think it's realistic to tell people to tune out from this. It's too big, and people need to be informed. They need to know what it does to them psychologically and that it's coming from something that isn't interested in truth. It's just self-aggrandizing and paranoid.
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