1. Trump is doing a lot of scary things and there are people whispering his ears (ahem, Tom Cotton) who want him to do far worse. But it's worth keeping in mind that he's doing this out of weakness, not strength.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1268366111441117184 …
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3. More thoughts here on how Trump's weakness -- his political weakness, his character weakness -- is driving things.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-military-weakness/ …
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him being weak doesn't matter if the elite will just let him do it, and it looks highly likely they will
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There's a whole lotta weakness going around in DC these days.
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But until someone in the military chain of command is like “nah” aren’t we sort of in trouble?
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Yes.
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If trump or the mayors were smart, they’d do what Nixon did and hold subsidized festivals that happened to be at the same time as the protests/riots
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Psychodrama for disaster.
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My question to all this is, do Carlson and the thems know that doubling down on strongman actually hurts him. Or they half-bailing on Trump and just focusing on their own viewership?
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True. The weakest autocrats rely on the military to remain in power.
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His weakness may get a lot of people killed.
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