It's true that if you are willing to do mental gymnastics and squint a little you can translate Trump's dumb-ass words into something intelligent. But a truer polyphonic reading acknowledges the surface stupidity even if words can have deeper meaning.https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/1144962701879382016 …
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Douthat isn't going to understand this
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(nods) Maybe it's because he does op-ed pieces for the New York Times that take 3-4 minutes tops to read, but I doubt he understands why the internet's "galaxy brain" hierarchy thing is meant to be a joke...

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You don’t think Trump is illiberal in the classic sense?
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You can be illiberal without understanding, in an abstract way, what liberalism is. In fact, it helps not to understand.
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The turtle was bullshitting, but Trump genuinely doesn’t know.
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You have been fooled. He is an idiot, but he reasons and get results.
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“He reasons”. Video or it didn’t happen...
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People have to believe he’s capable of such thought because he is the President, the supposed leader of the free world. What would it say about him or us as Americans if we were to admit that the President is capable of being a dumbass?
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One more reason he will be re-elected
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