September 16, 2015

The terrifying reason Donald Trump is winning: The infantilized conservative base wants rage, not ideas

The terrifying reason Donald Trump is winning: The infantilized conservative base wants rage, not ideas

"Trump’s success (and Jeb’s decline) shows how easy it is to openly infantilize the conservative base. You don’t need ideas to win over Republicans anymore; you simply have to reflect their paranoia and frustration, with as much bombast and superficiality as possible."