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Gavin Deichen
@gdeichen
OK, I think this line of thinking is worth seriously considering - tl;dr: Johnson's behaviour is because he's an arsehole, rather playing out some clever plan. Honestly? I think it's a bit of both. Just as Trump is barely functioning mentally but still serves a purpose.
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Dean Burnett
@garwboy
Ranty thread So many media hot takes this morning on Boris Johnson's vile behaviour in Parliament, focusing how it's all 'intentional', 'calculated', an 'electoral strategy', and so on. I don't buy it. /1
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Gavin Deichen
@gdeichen
The concern with the whole Bannon thing is not so much his influence (he doubtless has *some*, but isn't running the show) - it's that his predictions seem to come true. Just read back over some interviews.
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Gavin Deichen
@gdeichen
You can equip someone like Johnson with a handful of stock phrases, a general direction and even a reasonable idea of the kind of response he's going to get - and let him fly. It isn't genius, because it doesn't have to be.
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Gavin Deichen
@gdeichen
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@Triquetrea
Riding roughshod over convention makes the real business of politics - persuading people that the things that they want to be true are true and the things that they are afraid of are worth being afraid of - a whole lot easier.
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