Yes, Truthiz1, you are absolutely correct in pointing out that Trump didn’t create this America — as it’s been going on for ages. Perhaps I should have been clearer in stating that the America I believe Trump is responsible for creating is bold and no longer feels fear or shame in expressing its true colors. Or, in other words, the hoods are off!

– DJ

Seriously, I agree with those who say America’s cable news media has shown that industry to be (mostly) ill-equipped to actually cover the news in a credible, intelligent and responsible way. For example, MSNBC and (and to a slightly lesser degree) CNN shows the “Breaking News” banner so often -and for every little piece of insignificant crap – that, for Me, its lost its sense of importance and urgency.

“Trumpification” is real. The threat “Trumpification” poses is real. But it frustrates me that Trump voters make up roughly 35-38 (maybe 40) percent of the U.S. population and probably “less than 25% of income generated in the country”…and yet the American news media always covers them as if they’re the majority of Americans!?!

I expect that American History will NOT be kind when it comes to detailing the shameful roles played by elected officials (in BOTH parties) and the news media, during the Trump era.

“THIS America” has existed since the first Anglo-Europeans (White supremacists) landed here and set about implementing ways to deceive, subjugate, and darn right kill off, ALL native Americans in order to STEAL their land, resources and wealth. Indeed that despicable lot (White supremacists) thrived in America -their blatantly discriminatory practices, absolute power and public displays of hatred towards slaves/Blacks and other non-white groups was considered quite “the norm” in “Jim Crow” America…..until the rise of the Civil Rights Movement in 1960s.

After the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 there was, over time, a gradual tamping down (somewhat) of such public displays of racism, bigotry, ignorance and hate…BUT…it was always there; always simmering in the fevered swamps of American society. Trump recognized that fact, and seized upon the opportunity to unleash and exploit it for the benefit of Trump …and only Trump. He simply ripped the Klan sheets off of White Supremacists and with a Mega-bullhorn he yelled: “THIS IS AMERICA. IT’S OKAY TO BE YOU.”

Anyone who has paid even the slightest attention to Trump’s rise in America knows that “Trumpfication” is about way more than “Implementation of Donald Trump‘s political ideas.” And shame on Wiktionary for that barest of definitions.

Nonetheless, DJ is absolutely correct. “THIS” {White supremacists trying to impose their will on America today} “is what Donald Trump meant when he said he wanted to go back to the good old days and “Make America Great Again.”

Now here is where I differ slightly with DJ’s point: “THIS is the America Donald Trump has created.”

Trump has certainly given voice to -and emboldened- today’s White supremacists to publicly act a fool> But I’d post that Trump didn’t create “THIS America.” “THIS America” has existed for quite a long time.