yeah, but when the primaries were happening most everyone agreed that Trump danced rings around those people
nah. he told the strongman story. i'm a winner. i'm the best. i'll crush my foes. i'm what you want to be.
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strong candidates would have burst his bubble, made him look ridiculous, but they didn't
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yeah, or maybe taken one for the team. Cruz + Rubio together never had less than Trump's numbers til both went down.
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but "strong" is contextual. vileness is a weakness in the general in a way that it isn't in the Republican primary.
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he's a blowhard and a buffoon. The candidates could have buried him with his own past.
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his past wasn't a liability in the primary. his past is *aspirational* for the people who carried him in the primary.
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and are still carrying him now, to the (really still rather significant) extent that he's being carried at all.
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he's absolutely the apotheosis of the Red Tribe's idea of a winner -- so the hard core will forgive him anything.
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but the overlap between the Red Tribe's idea of a winner and the Blue Tribe's idea of a monster is, uh, extensive.
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empirically, if you go around projecting overwhelming narcissism, some percentage of people will just believe you.
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some percentage, but in the primaries his story came true.
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