How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong

by James O'Brien

Take an angry person, tell them you feel their pain, give them a target for their anger and help them to switch off their brain. It’s not complicated. Present them with a slogan to chant, without ever insisting that they explain what it means, and give them an utterly bogus, entirely self-serving version of events to support their delusional fury. So it is that Trump supporters can gloss effortlessly over the fact that one of their men has actually been locked up, while they continue to chant that Hillary Clinton should be – without being able to explain why. It’s a depressing depiction of our fellow men and women but it’s one which Trump understands implicitly. Treat people as stupid, hate-filled, gullible and mean while simultaneously helping them to blame all their problems on ‘others’ and they will love you for it. So much so, that you could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a single vote.