1. This stuff is dangerous and I feel people are averting their eyes from it out of Trump-exhaustion and maybe a misplaced belief that ignoring it will help contain it.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1412410480677769219 …
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2. Trump isn't acting like an ordinary ex-president. The closest parallel might be Theodore Roosevelt after 1909, who remained a political powerhouse & thorn in side of actual president culminating in 3rd party run in 2012. But Trump is even beyond that.
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3. Even if Trump doesn't run again in 2024, he's clearly intent on being a powerhouse in GOP & shaping party. Media blackout here isn't working since GOP pols take cues from him & want his blessing (Ohio & Pennsylvania state GOP are good bellwethers here).
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4. One way to think about what Trump is doing is he's styling himself as a government-in-exile, the legitimate president usurped by fraud. Deprived (thankfully) of the outlets that gave him voice in past, he's relying on more motley & fringe figures.
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5. If we're thinking about Trump as running a farcical government in exile (the prince across the waters in Mar-A-Lago) then the courtiers of this gov't are the fringe media outlets like" newsmax, OANN, myriad youtube/facebook personalities" etchttps://twitter.com/zikjey/status/1412431552584335371 …
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6. I explore the idea of a Trumpist government-in-exile in this podcast I did with Doug Bell, focusing on one particularly colorful courtier, Baron Black of Crossharbour, a felon who Trump pardoned.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-the-felonious-fan-club …
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