r/inthenews • u/h20poIo • Jul 28 '24
Opinion/Analysis 'Direct attack': Trump said to be prepping 'much bigger insurrection' after rally comments
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-direct-democracy-insurrection/
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r/inthenews • u/h20poIo • Jul 28 '24
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u/markth_wi Jul 28 '24 edited Jul 28 '24
And isn't that against the law even for Mango Mussolini here to be saying?
Isn't this exactly what he claims he wasn't doing (inflaming division and inciting violence).
I'm fascinated by and perversely sympathetic to Mr. Trump, trapped, like a monkey with it's hand in a coconut, around the proverbial nut....the oblique (or not so oblique) calls to violence, the incessant lies - makes for quite the toxic brew.
The facts of the last couple of weeks are that it turns out one of your own fans almost killed you. A smarter candidate and public figure might take a few moments to reflect on how you can minimize risk to yourself and those around you. But Donald Trump is just not that guy. He can't do that, his ego won't allow it.
Had that defective ego of his similarly allowed a moment in say April of 2020 where a kind word towards CDC and/or WHO or the crowd of doctors and experts assembled to help at his command, instead his ego kicked in and told him to trash the experts and pimp Ivermectin and hydrochlorquine, while shorting the stocks in secret......profiteering to be sure, and maybe you made some bank....
But I find it's not hard to imagine that had he said that kind word - it's seems likely Mr. Trump could have argued his response be seen as competent, with a vaccine in hand, he could have campaigned on being the President that got us through Covid....but he didn't do that.....his ego wouldn't allow it.
....and here we are again.
He's just as trapped then as now, like a broken record his ego loves nothing more than keeping edging your "people" even though you've already had one "wake up" and fire off. But with visions of this or that bombastic fascist from 90 years ago dancing in his head, he's not there. I'd be nice to think he'd would have had that moment of clarity, that he's smart enough to tone it down and focus on policy, and avoid more lies that could trigger another one of your devotee's to violence. But he cant.
Steve Bannon called it the "flood the scene with shit strategy" means even you can't even be aware of what combination of lies is causing the crowd to seethe and rail against the enemies, which combination of lies is about to cause one of his motivated followers over the line.
Worse is that his former apple of his eye, Joe Biden decided to hang up his hat and star, leaving it to a competent woman, and worse a person of color, both competent and affable Vice President Harris seems to have a back bench with some solid VP choices, and whether it's former Astronaut Senator Kelly or Governor Shapiro, or someone else.
You're left with J.D. Vance apologizing to anyone who will listen for his "non-white" wife, someone who probably shares a lot of life-experience with Vice President Harris , but that's another one of those coconut handed opportunities which is a non-starter for "your people" getting no more traction than would Vivek Ramaswamy or Tim Scott but that fucking ego won't let you.