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Opinion | Gods Don’t Bleed. Trump is Bleeding.


I Written in 2019, Donald Trump has become a folk hero among his likes, which means his lies, corruption, sexism, and vanity not only don’t hurt him. but also adds to his legend.

The folk hero is transcendent. He defies convention and defies gravity — in Trump’s case, political and cultural gravity. He overcomes the impossible, triumphs over the impossible, evades the authorities.

He is a classic trickster character, popular in folklore.

For example, for a Black kid growing up in South America, Stack-O-Lee (or, among other variations, Stagger Lee, as we’ve pronounced it) is a folk hero. “Stack” Lee Shelton was a black man, a pimp who, in 1895, shot and killed another man for snatching his hat. The story became the subject of so-called murderous ballads. Shelton reinforced his myth when, after being released from prison, he killed another man during a robbery.

This man, this character, who negotiated the space between slavery and freedom, between criminals and heroes, “personified the collective sense of black people at the bottom of society, and in this sense, Stagolee became a symbol of the Black community,” as Cecil Brown wrote in his book, “Stagolee Shot Billy.”

Written for Mother Jones in 2011, Joe Kloc describe how Stack-O-Lee became a hero in Southern gangster by breaking its rules without regret. Kloc wrote: The murders he carried out were “just to illustrate the injustices of Southern society”. “For all the myths surrounding him, there’s something very plausible about Stack-O-Lee’s character: Why obey some of society’s rules when so many others are against it? Friend?”

This is why I instinctively understand Trump’s call to action and heroism.

Years and decades of disinformation propaganda has turned working-class whites into a class of victims. These whites see themselves as the new Negro, in a turntable alternative reality. The rules of society threaten – or have already begun – against them.

Trump, the con man and the law-breaker, emerges as a combination of their anxieties and rebellions. He was a politician, but for them, more than politics. Donald is approaching the god. His followers adopted a cult fanaticism.

But everything has changed.

Trump’s announcement of his third run for the White House made a big splash. Prominent Republicans refused to sign on as early supporters. Trump himself is a recluse at Mar-a-Lago, having not held a public campaign event since his announcement. In fact, he was relegated to a low and laughable position when he sold the digital trading card himself. (Trump has always considered his staunch supporters as customers he can sell products to, be it a candidate or a card.)

And recently poll shows that Republican and Republican-leaning voters, at least for now, prefer Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to double-digit Trump.

So what happened? In short, God shed blood. And once you see God bleeding, you can no longer believe that someone is God.

It cannot be overstated how damaging the outcome of the midterm elections has been, not only for Republicans but also for Trump himself.

For years, Trump has been able to blame others for losses or failures, or even see them as victories.

While Robert Mueller’s report was damaging in many ways and went to great lengths to not vindicate Trump, the fact that there were no charges against Trump gave him the opportunity to claim exoneration. completely.

He is not disgraced as much as a victim of a politically motivated conspiracy. Impeachment, he told his supporters, prompted by my political enemies, has twice failed to remove me. He is not the most flawed president, but the most resilient.

When Trump lost in 2020, he blamed corruption and stolen elections. Of course, that’s another lie. According to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, the 2020 election is “the most secure in U.S. history” and “there is no evidence that any voting system has been erased or lost votes.” , change votes or be compromised in any way”.

However, Republican state legislatures across the country have used Trump’s election fraud lie as an excuse to “fix” uncorrupted voting systems, in order to fulfill the limits of the election. the electoral system was even more oppressive.

But there was one unintended consequence: By bragging about making their election process more secure, Republicans removed their right to lie about stolen elections when they loser.

And, in the midterms, they have lost a number of major races, including in states that have implemented the most regressive voter laws, like Georgia and Arizona, where Democrats easily nominate candidates who are elected. Trump specified. There’s no way to escape the brutal truth of the cycle: The Trump brand has been too faded and toxic to win in many battleground states. He could no longer defy political gravity.

At the same time, Trump’s legal losses are mounting as more investigations are directed at him. The substance that many compare to Teflon is starting to look more like flying paper.

Where some Republicans once considered invincible, they now feel weak and vulnerable. And in the herd mentality of politics, this is when they are most likely to turn against him.

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