The true grifter knows that a successful con depends on the sins of the mark. When they think they’re getting something for nothing, or taking advantage of someone’s misfortune, they bite… and they complain to the authorities less afterward. Trump is playing on the prejudices of a dying demographic whose years of crime against minorities are coming back to haunt them, and now they’re terrified that they will be treated as they treated the others..Trump is offering them one last, shiny hope that they can put ‘those people’ in ‘their place’ for good. They’re suckers, and somehow, I have a very hard time feeling sorry for them.
The true grifter knows that a successful con depends on the sins of the mark. When they think they’re getting something for nothing, or taking advantage of someone’s misfortune, they bite… and they complain to the authorities less afterward. Trump is playing on the prejudices of a dying demographic whose years of crime against minorities are coming back to haunt them, and now they’re terrified that they will be treated as they treated the others..Trump is offering them one last, shiny hope that they can put ‘those people’ in ‘their place’ for good. They’re suckers, and somehow, I have a very hard time feeling sorry for them.