I suspect part of his appeal to the Right is that many of them do in reality know the emperor has no clothes, but when anyone they perceive as liberal pointed it out to them, they denounced the truth as anti-Americanism. In contrast, because he embraces all of their turpitude, when Toadstool points it out they take it as lease that they no longer have to pretend to care about maintaining the facade that the emperor is elegantly dressed.
Willful self-delusion that the emperor is clothed seems to be more common among the center of the American political spectrum. Maybe Cory’s hoping that will change with a politician who doesn’t bother maintaining certain fictions and he might be correct, but I’m skeptical.
It could be a silver lining, but I’m wary of sharing Jon Schwarz’s thankfulness for it given the cloud to which it’s attached. It’s possible I’m being overly cautious. Sometimes I feel like people treat Trump as a useful fulcrum the way some Xtian Eschatologists treat the anti-Christ as a necessary evil. That just doesn’t seem like a good idea to me.
