I watched in disbelief as businessmen voted for a repeat bankrupt, laborers for a boss infamous for stiffing his workers, evangelicals for a serial adulterer, women for an admitted sexual assaulter, patriots for a draft dodger who would sell his country's secrets for trivial gain, educated men for an ignoramus.
But they did so with fierce gladness in their hearts. Because what their chosen one had done was open Pandora's box … yes, the old one, filled with the ancient calamities of race hatred and rage and cruelty and bloodlust and infinite greed and tell them that these things were the remedy for all their grievances, that all their anger was justified, and most important:
None of what ailed them was their own fault-or ever had been…
They took to that like infants to a honeyed tit.
~ Greg Iles, Southern Man
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