Political Comment
I just read this comment under an article in The Hill.
Trump is the symptom not the illness.
It's like saying that "the fever is the problem" in an infection.
Does the illness mean economic dislocation, cultural and demographic anxiety, party and media evolution, and institutional decay?
Think about it.
the people have squandered their cares; (...) and anxiously desires just two things: bread and circuses
Decimus Junius Juvenalis' Satires (c. 100 AD).