“ALL HAIL CHAIRMAN TRUMP! WITH HIS GLORIOUS 10% PURCHASE OF INTEL, THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF AMERICA ENTERS A BOLD NEW ERA” -- California governor Newsom riles Republicans with Trump-trolling posts

[u/marketrent]

https://www.barrons.com/news/meme-lord-newsom-riles-republicans-with-trump-trolling-posts-05b74794

[u/cookies_n_juice]

I have a PhD in political science and am decidedly not shocked. Literature on democracy and polarization is pretty clear lol. Only the political science people who studied only the US (Americanists) were shocked. 

[u/river_tree_nut → u/cookies_n_juice]

Yeah shocked was the wrong word. It’s hard to be shocked by something that was years in the making. Rattled would be my personal response.

[u/cookies_n_juice → u/cookies_n_juice]

Broad generalization there but that was my experience