Well, I'm just an onlooker, so I don't have any influence on U.S. politics. I'm just constantly astonished that the U.S. people would vote for such a charlatan. Twice.

The problem is you’re getting all your information from the internet (I’ll bet social media?).

The impact of that is on display in this very thread. Random unproven accusations, conspiracy theories and repetition of “facts” that have been disproven long ago.

If your goal is to educate yourself about the US leadership, or really any subject, you’re not going to do it by what you see on social media.

Your post isn't really doing anything apart from casting general doubt. Can you be more specific please?

Are there more reliable sources of information that you can point to?

> > Random unproven accusations, conspiracy theories and repetition of “facts” that have been disproven long ago.

Every person who has been out in the world had to deal with a Trump like person in the workplace or wherever .

And people don't like it, as a matter of fact they despise it, he's only kept afloat by those who fail to connect the abusive bullying behavior of DJT with their own personal experience with a similar character and those who enjoy bullying or are paitiently waiting in line to do some bullying.

You reply seems to be a nonsequitur to my comment.

it's not, you are arguing for media to conceal or hide Trump's personality and the common intuition ahout him

Intuition?

Let me put it this way - if you wanted to know a subject well, as in truly understand it, for example the current protests in Iran.

Do you think you’d walk away with a good understanding from what the mainstream media says? From social media?

I think it clear to most people the media does a horrible job.

Now consider if they do such a horrible job on those topics, do you think they suddenly do a good job on US politics?

There is nothing to understand about Trump, he's a know it all bully who enjoys bullying people and given the fact that he was born in privilege has always enjoyed the luxury to pick targets way below his stature as subjects of bullying. As bullys do. Picking on weaker people because they enjoy the process , and actually find it way more enjoyable than winning against equals or god forbid be the underdogs in a confrontation.

Social media and tech companies are effectively helping external actors (and malicious internal actors) to break western democracy.

Quite - that's been patently obvious since the Cambridge Analytica scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

Ultimately, there's a war between the haves and the have-nots and one side clearly has more resources.

Yeah.

It's demoralising.

Yes, that is the final observation needed in the proof that open societies are more brittle than those led by dictators.

An open society shouldn't have all the mainstream media in the control of just a handful of people - that's a recipe for abuse and cover-ups. It reminds me of hierarchical religions where just certain people (e.g. priests) have access to the "higher powers" and can thus mislead the masses.