A major factor beyond accusations that all Trump voters are racists, goes back to the legacy of Roger Ailes and the manipulation of culture to tribalize politics beyond issues. This, via FOX and talk radio has cultivated and fed what, as a mental health worker, we would have called a  "thought disorder" en mass. In the old cold war era, they called it "brainwashing." I've written several articles on this for a local rag when I had a monthly column (pre-COVID). Today's America and the cultivated divide is the legacy of Roger Ailes and to a degree, George H.W. Bush who honed an embedded media worthy of distrust

Roger and Us

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