I remember watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and laughing as he joked about Trump coming down the escalator. It seemed like an absurd premise at the time and I expected Trump to make a fool of himself and drop out of the race. But a funny thing happened in the weeks and months that followed. Everything Trump said on the issues reflected my thoughts. But he was brave enough to say things out loud that I could only keep to myself. He was brutally mocked and his character attacked from all sides and I began to identify with him and his campaign to make America great. The viciousness of the attacks seemed way out of line and it became clear that they were mostly lies. I wondered why Trump was such a threat to the establishment and began to turn off the evening news and research elsewhere to find the truth.
Many, many rabbit holes later, I am a changed person in how I perceive the world.