Donald Trump's long history of racism, from hiding the Black people at Trump Castle when Donald & Ivana came through, to “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-employee-kip-brown-reveals-donald-trump-s-casino-concealed-black-staff-during-his-visits/ar-AA1lgfLH

Well, we know where Trump stands on unions.

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Harris/Walz become first major ticket to support Marijuana legalization.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilyearlenbaugh/2024/08/07/harris-walz-is-first-major-ticket-to-support-cannabis-legalization/

Of course if Trump goes all in racist, the usual MAGA crazies do, too.

Meanwhile, social media has been set on fire by Walz and Harris. Even if most of the media let the GOP and Trump push them around.
Hey, @nytimes
, are those cancellations starting to hurt yet?

So things seem to be going less that wonderful for the Trump campaign. Vance brings more Ice than Heat. Even with his ear scratch, Trump doesn't seem to have the Mojo he used to.

JD Vance apparently understands all this.
He held a rally at the ECW Arena. (Extreme Cage Wrestling)last week but only drew a crowd of a little over 200 in a 2,000 seat arena.
That's far worse than Somoa Joe VS Necro Butcher did at the same arena.
(sometimes I think JD is secretly on our side🤣)
https://www.indy100.com/politics/jd-vance-philadelphia-rally-ecw

Now, though, Trump & his poorly chosen VP pick are on the back foot. When Biden dropped out, Harris unexpectedly hit the ground running & are generating a huge amount of their own heat.
While Trump & Vance are being made to look like fools & just weird, which is castrating the DJT image.

But back to our main character.
Trump learned from WWE that the important thing was to get people excited, to 'draw heat'. It didn't matter as a 'face' or a heel, if you could generate excitement, you would win.
Trump never went for subtleties & nuance.

People have compared QAnon to an Alternate Reality Game, but why not wrestling?
It has demonic characters, battles between good and evil, and most importantly the suspension of disbelief.
Like neokayfabe, the audience may believe it's over the top, but perhaps partially true.

What Vince McMahon did was stop pretending that wrestling was real. This got rid of any limitations on how weird the storylines could be.
It went from kayfabe to neo-kayfabe, or "Yes, it's fake, except for the parts that you believe are real".
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/24/trump-wrestling-mcmahon-villain-election-00088590

The NYT & Washington Post started counting all of the lies told by Trump during his term as POTUS. He clocked in at well over 35,000. The lines between reality and fantasy weren't just fading, they were disappearing for many. In wrestling this is kayfabe, or 'fake, babe!'

Along with the rise of Trump, we also saw the rise of Pizzagate & QAnon.
These were bizarre conspiracy theories about satanic elites that supposedly ruled the world, that Donald Trump was secretly working to defeat.
Who else was writing storylines out there?