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The Outrage Ladder to the Presidency...
The Outrage Ladder to the Presidency
“Wait! Mom, wait!” I jumped out of my chair in the middle of a conversation with my mother and ran to my trusty laptop. “I figured it out! I have the answer that all of America has been waiting for!” After 59 years, my mother still needs a bit of adjustment to be around me.
I have decoded the Trump Formula to the Presidency. It is the same formula everybody’s favorite head of hair, RFK, Jr., is using.
Up until now the response to Trump’s grasping for power has been laughter turning into tears. While we sing to each other about the horror of Trump’s successful rhetoric, our melodies somehow never reduces its effect.
I understand how.
Saying awful things puts a person on a stage of condemnation that actually elevates them. The people who hate the goodie-two-shoes revel in our pain as we writhe on a sword Broken Rules. Everybody repeats the self-promoter’s name and that they said something awful. The name is soon …
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