Hispanics on Trump

Since Trump became a thing on the U.S. political scene in 2015, there has been a running debate: Is Trump the cause of the hate, racism, and lies that is enveloping our formerly great nation, or is he the symptom of these characteristics that had lain dormant in our citizenry until he arrived?  My (admittedly imperfect) translation of the Spanish at left goes like this:

The citizens and the vote of hate

The question will linger in the air: How is it possible that 70 million (US) citizens, practically half, voted this week to keep a man in power who has turned into the epitome of lying, bullying, hate, ignorance, narcissism, and authoritarianism? And even worse, yet knowing all this, that (many in) the United States would prefer him again?

The only possible answer is to conclude that Trump is a reflection of the rise of these attributes (lying, hate, narcissism, and authoritarianism) in the public conversation, in the customs of today.  You celebrate eccentricities and absurdities like Donald Trump as though they have always existed, and the fact that these got him to be president shows that millions of people have embraced these values, or, better said, (voted against) the absence of them.

A virtue of Trump is that he never hid his immorality; he was chosen because this immorality and egotism is also that of the people themselves.  Trump is a mirror expression of something very deep and troublesome.  

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Can’t say I didn’t warn you about that translation, but the point is that the rest of the world is having the precise same conversation that we are having here, and that they are as just as bothered by it as we are ourselves.