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America isn't a house divided. It's a house lobotomized.

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Trump studied Vince and Linda McMahon's WWE business model, the kayfabe. The McMahons capitalize on the audience's laziness and greed. It easier to be entertained by productions that do not require intellectual involvement.

A WWE fan does not need to read and understand Shakespeare or Nietzsche to enjoy violent entertainment and/or fantasy violent entertainment like 'The Battle of the Billionaires.'

Trump learned to promise that audience something he cannot ever deliver. The audience get to participate in the Trump kayfabe; suspending reality, imagining that Trump can really beat 'the enemy' on their behalf.

In professional wrestling, kayfabe (/ˈkeɪfeɪb/) is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true", specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not staged. The term kayfabe has evolved to also become a code word of sorts for maintaining this "reality" within the direct or indirect presence of the general public.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe

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