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August 23 - September 18, 2022
“Humoring him” had essentially become the GOP platform.
He turned the swamp into his own gold-plated Jacuzzi.
Trump, too, would pass, like a kidney stone.
Bubble World’s adherence to the Clinton inevitability factor should have been its own flashing signal.
The Clintons benefited from an outdated mystique that they were bulletproof.
Unlike Clinton, Trump was a desperately untamed figure with no regard for rules, traditions, or ethics. His non-capacity for humiliation or embarrassment created an asymmetric contest.
Groupthink coalesces around flawed assumptions—about
Trump was just better at being dirty, proving how smart and savvy he was. Only losers got hung up on the unspoken rules of the capital. Bless their hearts.
His main appeal, simply, was as a tool of revenge.
Were Republican leaders so unwilling to condemn Trump because their voters supported him so vigorously, or did these voters support Trump so vigorously because so few Republican leaders ever dared condemn his actions? Chicken, egg; egg, chicken.
the forty-fifth president fell into a tailspin in which he became his absolute worst self at the worst possible time and made everything more terrible for everyone.
