Well, I’d say that given reality’s well-known liberal bias, the vast majority of folks with a serious interest in reality (of which typical BBers are definitely a subset) wouldn’t bother giving Trump a chance - he’s just so very far from being capable of even pretending he’s the right man for the job.
You say you’re tired of the hyperbole, which I guess is understandable if you were exposed to a lot of anti-Obama sentiment, but the thing about phony ‘balance’ is that sometimes, some things are actually true.
And 45 is unprecedented in so many ways. Perhaps most importantly, his ignorance of, and brazen disrespect for, the machinery of democracy is off the charts. That aspect alone should be enough to give anyone with a clue the screaming heebie-jeebies.
And that’s just scratching the surface of the ways that he’s singularly unqualified.
And then you have the gob-smackingly obvious fact that this repellent bozo is a screaming neon con man. This shady huckster’s history is for the most part a matter of public record, and yet there’s an army of rabid dupes wolfing down this shit sandwich with vicious glee.
And you know why? Because idiot tribalism is the way of the authoritarian follower. And there are so many of that type in the US, because the filthy PTB have been pouring money into think tanks and media empires and god knows what else for decades, to consolidate and expand their power. And long-term investment in idiocy is how you pull off the sort of epic bastardry that’s currently being waged on us all in the one-sided class war that by the way, is totally a thing.
