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myrmepropagandist · 21w
"At least they aren't John Bolton Republicans. At least the new Trump Republicans aren't into the Dick Cheney war monger stuff." Yeah, they are somehow even worse. Dick Cheney always made up a little...
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I'm also realizing that all of those times Trump said "I stopped 7 wars! I prevented so many wars!" should have clued us in more to what he was going to do next.

His people have been primed with this "I've stopped so many wars" nonsense so now that one starts? Well just subtract it from his prodigious total of war prevention.

I think that is how it's supposed to work.

His base are isolationist. Will they buy this?
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James Gilbert · 21w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj I'm not convinced that Trump's thinking is that sophisticated.
James Widman · 21w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj i thought their deal, more than anything else, is a belief in a strict hierarchy...? so if the leader of that hierarchy feels like being isolationist this week, then they're isolationis...
tripleman, a 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪 · 21w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj His base doesn’t care. They just know that he’s hurting the people they don’t like — foreign and domestic — and that they’ve wanted this for so long. As long as he continues ...