People said and they said that they wanted another Reagan

Well they’ve got a disinhibited old celebrity under investigation for ties to an enemy state stretching back to his election riding a reactionary backlash (though limited by a Congress that hasn’t caught up yet), leveraging new media culture to communicate with the country in punchy bite-sized chunks, soothing the outraged right with a balm of nationalist sentiment that easily shades into xenophobia

and STILL they bitch and moan