This is the rawest, most accurate description of modern US conservatism that I've ever seen. Trump's one true talent is speaking the id of the right-wing base aloud to them, stripped of pretense or double-talk.

What a lot of libs & independents have trouble wrapping their heads around is, among that population, the feeling of victimhood & resentment is not a reaction to events or circumstances. It is *primary*, psychologically foundational, rooted down at the brainstem level.

arya It’s at the base of narcissism, actually.