>>You're under the impression I mean simply verbal dissent. I'm talking disobedience in general, pushback from the public. I mean any and all dissent. >>Solid take. Right on. Thanks. >>Partially. But I think a much bigger factor was the underdog appeal, entirely manufactured by CNN. They certainly worked in tandem. That he was an unchecked mouth that couldn't be controlled can't be understated. The effects this had on the lower classes absolutely cannot be understated. Jonathan Bowden said that the best way to effect change is to get people in power that no longer care what the press or their fellow compatriots think or feel. You only need to get someone in power that says the things the lower classes think or say in the privacy of their own home. This would **embolden** people. It would railroad out of control after that. Which is good. I'm not saying Trump is or was that guy, but it went a long way in showing the State and all its apparatus what even semi-populism and weak nationalism is capable of. They were terrified. You saw how they reacted to it. Now imagine someone with half of what I believe in there that doesn't care what the legacy media elite, Silicon Valley or the bourgeoisie thinks. You just have to have someone in there that doesn't give a fuck. >>I could go on, but this isn't really meant to be a rant. I say rant on. Too many smoothbrains here that just want to post memes.