Trump was said to be popular by the same infallible athirities who said he was unpopular. He was a populist - appealing to the deplorable masses who besiege all right thinkers. Simultaneously, all were to know he was unpopular, and people who were not to be deplored (or else) made if clear people were not to support Trump (or else).
The actual deplorable masses are the or-else thinkers who cause massive societal stresses whenever their ideas gain currency. As such, one of the modern fixations of government is the suppression of the or-elsists, so they cannot suppress others.
This is why nazis are suppressed, but simultaneously, this is why social justice is perennially unpopular. All people fixated on suppressing others are or-elsists, including those who are on “correct” sides. The only truly winning move is not to play.
Since or-elsist thought exists in all but the most pacifistic communities, political operatives often work to maintain equilibrium between or-elsist thinkers so that as much as possible they suppress one another without making friendships that hurt “good” people. Occasional fuckups happen when non-or-elsists are declared or-elsists; there’s a sense in which inquisitors are rarely wrong, because they rarely apologize and their targets certainly don’t want to obey them!
Actual pacifists do better. Space travel proceeds slowly despite controversy over its expense because its supporters don’t turn rebel when it doesn’t advance while its opponents are heavily or-elsist in nature. Whatever your cause, denounce or-elsism and mean it. Learn tolerance.
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And i want to stick to facts and logic, so there is no way to shill in any direction. Facts and logic.