Oh; I don't blame Trump for any of this. He's not smart enough to deserve that. He's a reactionary populist, the latest in a long history of men willing to say

Oh; I don't blame Trump for any of this. He's not smart enough to deserve that. He's a reactionary populist, the latest in a long history of men willing to say or do anything in the pursuit of power. Trump is a mere opportunist; if it hadn't been him, it would have been someone else. His ideas are not his own - this movement has existed for a long time, so even with another figurehead, the ideas (racism, xenophobia, etc) would be the same. He craves only celebrity and power (increasingly the same thing these days). He views "right" and "wrong" in terms of applause and ratings. He is also in way over his head: a second rate used car salesman like Trump is a good liar, but he has no business playing Game of Thrones with a man like Vladimir Putin. Whether you like him or not, Putin is a career spy: he has personally killed countless people, and he plays Machiavellian politics on a level that Trump does not even have the mental capacity to understand: this is why Russian election meddling is so incomprehensible to Trump.