A report on the Saturday Trump rally in South Carolina on Saturday from the Greenville News quotes a number of cultists who attended, among them 91 year-old Virginia Powell, a retired textile worker who said the country “in the biggest mess we’ve ever been in, and it’s up to us to clean it up.”
Meaning that a woman who was born during the Great Depression, an economic catastrophe in which tens of millions of Americans lost their homes and savings, was an adolescent when nearly half a million American servicemen were killed in action fighting a two-front war against Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan, probably already had children by the time the Soviets threatened to launch nuclear missiles from Cuba, saw explosive unrest during the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, was likely a grandmother by the time of the 9/11 attacks and then the 2008 financial crisis, and then most recently luckily survived the COVID-19 pandemic that killed over a million Americans, many of them around her age, thinks that the Biden presidency is the biggest mess the nation has ever been in and it’s up to her and other Trump fans to vote him back into office.
Her son Randall Powell agreed and said Trump will bring jobs back that went overseas because he “cares about the people in this country,” as if Trump had not already been president for four years and accomplish virtually nothing meaningful toward reversing the offshoring of American jobs.