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Trump started the race as half a Hillary plant. Trump is an egomaniac, he's flirted with the presidency before, through a mode of "who the hell cares, I have name recognition in a huge way," but never really considered it. Last spring, Hillary asks of him a favor: "do our centrist-corporatism a solid, distract all the Looney-Tunes for a few months and give them a reality-TV campaign." Trump shrugs and says yes, figuring that he will get a slightly larger talk-show footprint than even birtherism gave him in terms of free "content-ads" for his reality-TV empire. 3 months later, Trump is finding things way easier than he expected, thinking "man, I can get so much free branding from just shouting randomly about republicans," leading to a slow segue into "this Presidency shtick is the greatest ROI my advertising has ever seen!." 3 months later, roughly into last November: "I think this whole President thing might actually stick, what the hell am I supposed to do about that? I guess that'll make sure I'm hugely and historically remembered, let me try and figure out a real strategy." The point is, Trump is unpredictable precisely because he is not a politician, and he did not enter the race with the intent of becoming one. Trump has become a politician because the Hillary campaign does not know that a parodic representation of what it intends to fight is in fact the most popular vision for the future of America. Trump is stuttering in Rubio-mode because he is a barking dog with no idea what to do with the car now that he's caught up to it. The future is bright. Xenophanes has issued a correction as of 04:47 on Mar 16, 2016 |
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McDowell posted:I can see the conversation quote clearly now. This is a scripted rerun of Goldwater / LBJ LBJ's allies were in a Congress with more than a 4 percent approval rating.
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