WTFisWallace?
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I agree for the most part.Imagine if say...a George W Bush type candidate faced an attempt on his life. I think most of the country would have reacted significantly different and it might become a political advantage. Having a measured candidate who was established as a religious person would be totally different from having a completely non-religious guy running around calling for violence against random immigrants and making ignorant statements daily. This shyt isn't working for Trump. BTW this is not me saying W Bush was acceptable or better than Trump, I am talking solely about personalities and behavior.
Once again it feels like we're witnessing a trial run with the wrong guy. Even the attempted coup and the way the courts refused to go along....I can imagine that working better with a smarter fascist president. The assassination attempt(s) definitely feel like something a smarter fascist would exploit way better. The go-to move would be to drape yourself in religion, cast your opponents as godless, and call for holy reckoning. He's not doing that because he's so morally bankrupt he can't even effectively pretend to be a Christian. Everything about this man - his mental state, his personality disorder, his age, etc - make it hard for him to pull off what looks to be the most important power grab in recent memory. A lot of people NEED him to win. Elon needs him to win or else those govt contracts are gone; hell if I was Kamala I'd seize Starlink next year and tell him to go fukk himself. Peter Thiel needs Trump to win. A lot of people need this to go a certain way or else they lose a lot of money and influence.
But if someone like Bush Jr is the right guy, I doubt he'd be able to draw cult as idiotic, willfully selective/hypocritical, and crash out ready.
There's something about Trump...maybe that the masses feel that they're smarter than him, or that he can turn off all inhibitions on his worse thoughts and willingly to say and carry out what they want, or idk. All that in combination with seeing Obama and now possibly Harris rise to Presidency. He's able to bring together a weird crowd (c00ns & red pill cats included).
I think someone like Tom Cotton is very dangerous, but not sure if standalone of this MAGA movement, could he build the same type of following.