It really is sad and I REALLY hope people can see this for what it is. Many of us are quick to attack every Trump voter as utterly lacking morals or redeeming qualities, and I understand the impulse, but the fact is, tons of these folks were just abused and tricked. I know decent people who voted for Trump. More than one. The media they consume is entirely false, entirely one-sided, and they are outright victims of it. The result is that they sincerely have no idea who Trump really is, and their media seems utterly normal from their perspective inside it.

I’m not arguing they have no culpability. There’s a point where every adult must ultimately be responsible for their decisions, whatever the surrounding context.

But we underestimate the power of their media at our peril. Trump never gets where he is today without an enormous engine of malicious deceit aimed straight at the most gullible fools among us. Shocker, it works really well.

Are we going to just forever blame the gullible fools, who aren’t equipped to defend against such a thing? When do we blame and attack the people building the malicious deceit engine?