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      His base love being told the nation is terrible. They think it shows he is being honest with them.

      And I agree the nation is in a terrible state, of course. But my criticism of the US is an attempt to improve it, where his is just conman instinct that a truth plus a lie goes down easier than two lies.

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        His base *love* being told the nation is terrible. They think it shows he is being honest

        This makes total sense to me, coming from a mostly conservative family. They are so miserable and negative about everything, that negativity is how they communicate.

        Their identity is based on the things they don’t like, their conversations consist of complaints and gossip, and their politics revolve around who they perceive needs to be knocked down a peg.

        So I think it goes beyond them thinking he’s honest. His constant bitching, bullshitting, and punching down in place of solutions – they make him feel familiar and like he is one of them. (even though we know he hates them just as much as he hates everybody else)

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      He wants to lose the midterms.

      He has fucked everything up with his incompetence and has no clue on how to fix any of it. He needs the Democrats to get a majority so he can hlame them for everything.

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        He wants the Dems to win just so he can claim, again, the massive amounts of fraud, have the corrupt scotus declare the midterms invalid and then the real party begins

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        That would actually be great, we can make some progress on fixing some of the myriad of things that trump has made worse.

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      Trump should never be mistaken for a leader. Leaders understand their responsibilities and act and speak accordingly.

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    The whole nation? Nah, that’s definitely going to be some landlocked shit hole. Worst on the East Coast? That’s definitely a consideration depending on how you feel about Florida.

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    I can tell you a good chunk of NC voters will swing either way, and Trumpfranco’s electoral strategy just cost him those votes.

    If there was a God, I would believe that Trump is the end product of God indulging in bad food at a Golden Corral.

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      and Trumpfranco’s electoral strategy just cost him those votes.

      Yeah sorry if I just don’t buy this. These people love being insulted by this guy for some reason, it’s very odd.

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          Well, in a case like this they’d assume he was talking about most of the rest of the state, not them. And how he wants to make things better and to punish the people whose fault it is that things are bad.

          That’s pretty much the MAGA MO. I mean, the name literally says that America isn’t great.

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          He says and does whatever he wants with the executive branch, which has been terrible, but kicking a state out of the union is definitely outside of his control

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            You’re only almost certainly correct.

            The thing about laws is that they work until they don’t.

            It is conceivable that one or more states might want to leave the union and that Trump supported their withdrawal, and somehow that led to people just not enforcing laws and effectively letting them go.

            If you think back to the dissolution of the USSR, that’s kinda what happened there, albeit completely differently. It just… sorta happened, because conditions were ripe for it.

            I’m not predicting that here in the slightest, just saying that things Can Never Change… until the sometimes suddenly do.

            So you are… only almost certainly correct.