“Many of the same people anxious about the authoritarian overtones of Trump’s appeal were unconcerned about the intense adulation that adoring crowds showered on Barack Obama in 2008, though the spectacle featured similarly troubling signs—the iconography, the messianic messaging and the implausible promises of government-produced comfort and safety. Just as President Trump fans will judge every person on how nice or mean he or she is to Trump, so, too, those rooting against Obama were immediately branded unpatriotic or racist. Obama’s inevitable failure to live up to the hype has had many repercussions—and none of them healthy.”
https://reason.com/archives/2015/12/25/admit-it-you-just-want-your-own-dictator
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