This post originally appeared on the Reveille website on November 9, 2016. Regards a subject we’ll do our best to avoid!

Too much of this going around, but the three pillars of the Trump campaign have propelled him to a fear-mongering victory in the US Presidential elections:
  • Ignorance – What can we expect when the rich and powerful feed working-class voters nothing but lies and deceit?
  • Hatred – The horror of nihilistic moral decay in our modern, self-absorbed and self-destructive society that breeds impotence and rage.
  • Bigotry – That most dark and disturbing underbelly of America rising to the surface in the form of the “white male backlash”.