Thought experiment: If Trump didn't have the Russian investigation to stage his victimhood on, what would he have used?
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To answer my own thought experiment, I think it would be BLM and immigrants, even more than he is demonizing them now. That might lead some GOPers--the Jeff Flakes and maybe even Lindsey--to criticize him. But probably would do even more damage than denying RU tampering.
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Also note, had Trump been demonizing BLM and immigrants (especially Muslims) 24/7 like he planned, the right wing terrorism that has flourished would likely be harder to call out.
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I'm among those who believes 1) the Russian tampering was real--worse than people imagine but also 2) the response has at times done its own damage. But now that I'm thinking of the "victimhood opportunity cost" (™), and the focus on Russia probably has prevented other damage.
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Meanwhile, RU policy is about the only area where the GOP has imposed constraints on Trump's fucking idiotic foreign policy.
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you've got me thinking, but I have no good answers.
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hmm ... wud be same. *prob* is americans and the little trumps in many of them
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Canada and Mercedes Benz
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