Tom Nichols: ‘People Want the TV show ... Trump Is Fun, He’s Interesting to Them’

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Velshi: “Let’s talk about the two pillars right now of Donald Trump’s appeal. One is this savior. Thing that I am doing this for you. I am standing between them and you. I am being prosecuted so that you are not prosecuted, which makes zero sense, because nobody else would be prosecuted from things Donald Trump did. And, then there is this deep-seated grievance, which he wrote about that, it’s this adopted by people, or is this there and we have to do a better job of figuring it out how you run a country when you have some large percentage of the population with deep-seated grievances?”

Nichols: “Force in the world right now is resentment. Is deep-seated and mostly emotional and a rational resentment. And Trump, I think Matthew has a good point here. Trump tapped into that. He kind of mind that as a very rich vein of political support among people who hadn’t, had put into words this sort of itching feeling of inferiority and the sort of sense of being outsiders, even though ironically, the Republicans, as Trump went into 2016, were probably the most powerful they that far been they’d achieved unified national government by then. They control the majority of elected seats. Across the country, but Trump’s voters had a beef with the culture, which they felt wasn’t their culture. That it somehow didn’t respect them, and created this kind of itching, writhing sense of dissatisfaction that they need to express somehow. And Trump, who’s one genius, he’s an incredibly ignorant person, but he’s a genius at marketing, and he marketed that brilliantly. But I don’t think there’s much to be done about it now. You can’t really reason people out of that. Some people will naturally just recover from it, but the idea is that somehow, we can go out there and talk to these voters and say okay, once and for all, what is it that we can do for you? They don’t want you to do anything for them. They want this chaos. They want the anger and the completes constitutional mess and danger that Trump wants to create. And part of it, I’ll just go back to its comment about Sarah Palin. The problem is, people want the TV show. They don’t want to be bored. Trump is fun. He’s interesting. To them.”