Trump is a Black Hole: A Detailed Analysis of the Frightening Rise of the Donald Trump Cult Phenomenon

Another superb comment from Francis Miville!

Trump is Far Right, Farthest Right for sure but for an even more frightening reason than mere fascism. He is a political black hole into which even the pure light of Christian prayer gets sucked into without the ability to reach Heaven.

The USA up to Nixon's time had followed a more or less rectilinear course in the direction of a certain progress. But from the 1970's onwards the US started circling in an orbit.

That was at the time most baby-boomers were sold, as hippies and others, philosophies from India as supposedly much more advanced and progressive than the dream about indefinite progress that had up to then been quite mistakenly called American.

For the older generation, the news of our actual conquest of the Moon was proof that America had set up for eternity a technological standard that could no longer evolve and instead could only be subject to incremental betterment.

Though Nixon in his very gross way still stood for a very gross …