I don’t think he has either the brains or the attention span to play a long game. I say often (and did obliquely in that last post) that he has the emotional development of a spoiled five-year-old. That’s not just a derisive turn of phrase. He really does. He never outgrew that stage when he was taking toys away from the other kids in kindergarten and saying, “Mine!”
So yeah - I don’t doubt for a second that he’s sincerely trying to distance himself (at least publicly) from those fucking Project 2025 Christofascists. They’re making him look bad, and he can’t abide that.
The rather obvious and entirely predictable lie is that it never had anything to do with him.
That and the implication that they still won’t have anything to do with him should he win. I would absolutely guarantee that if he wins, he’s going to follow their playbook to the letter, because it (likely not coincidentally) will give him exactly what he wants - absolute power with which to impose his will and punish his enemies.
Absolute power to take toys away from the other kids in kindergarten and say “Mine!”
He’s a salesman, a jawboner. A darn good one, and one who knows how to work a barely legal scheme. Calling him a total idiot is probably the biggest mistake the Democratic Party as a whole makes.
Oh sure - I have no doubt of that.
I don’t think he has either the brains or the attention span to play a long game. I say often (and did obliquely in that last post) that he has the emotional development of a spoiled five-year-old. That’s not just a derisive turn of phrase. He really does. He never outgrew that stage when he was taking toys away from the other kids in kindergarten and saying, “Mine!”
So yeah - I don’t doubt for a second that he’s sincerely trying to distance himself (at least publicly) from those fucking Project 2025 Christofascists. They’re making him look bad, and he can’t abide that.
The rather obvious and entirely predictable lie is that it never had anything to do with him.
That and the implication that they still won’t have anything to do with him should he win. I would absolutely guarantee that if he wins, he’s going to follow their playbook to the letter, because it (likely not coincidentally) will give him exactly what he wants - absolute power with which to impose his will and punish his enemies.
Absolute power to take toys away from the other kids in kindergarten and say “Mine!”
You’re not giving him nearly enough credit. Look at Trump before he was into politics, the motley fool’s run-in is particularly great:
https://www.fool.com/archive/portfolios/rulebreaker/2001/02/07/donald-trump-let-us-down.aspx
https://www.fool.com/podcasts/rule-breaker-investing/2016-08-03-i-own-the-water-a-fool-s-brush-with/
He’s a salesman, a jawboner. A darn good one, and one who knows how to work a barely legal scheme. Calling him a total idiot is probably the biggest mistake the Democratic Party as a whole makes.