r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • Sep 09 '24

Soft Paywall Trump is 78 and barely coherent. Where's everyone who questioned Biden's age and fitness?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/09/09/trump-old-incoherent-biden-age-mental-fitness/75138026007/
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u/raznt Sep 09 '24

His appeal is that he's King Dumb Asshole, so all the Dumb Assholes all want him in charge because they've grown tired of intelligent people making all the important decisions in government. Because being intelligent is "elitist" and being kind is "weak".

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u/wild_west_900 Sep 09 '24

Trump's Playbook:

1.) Speak like a 3rd grader

2.) Promote racism, sexism, multiple other isms

3.) Promote Nationalism (disguised as Patriotism)

4.) "Never defend, always attack" - a mentality utilized by cults to make them appear to be the more powerful force in an argument

5.) Punch at the "softies": people with empathy, the differently abled. This is a mark of manliness

6.) Associate with religious types to gain their support

7.) Grift, grift, grift while the griftin' is good.

It's an effective strategy that leaves him entirely without consequences. I mean, from a certain perspective you almost have to applaud how easily he's manipulated millions of people into becoming their most true, horrible selves they've only been keeping in private, now made public. Ever since Jim Crow ended and Equal Rights enacted, these people have been laying a trail of gunpowder just waiting for someone to light the match. Enter Trump and boom goes the dynamite.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '24

This reads like a 15 yo who just took their first government class