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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    1. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 1

      Thought experiment: If Trump didn't have the Russian investigation to stage his victimhood on, what would he have used?

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    2. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 1

      Follow-up thought experiment: if he were staging his victimhood on *that other thing* rather than the RU investigation, would the country be more or less healthy for it? And would the GOP be more or less likely to stay unified behind him in it?

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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 1

      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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        2. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 1

          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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        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 1

          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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        4. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 1

          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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        2. Erin Altman‏ @AltmanErin Jun 1
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Agreed. Unlike Russia, there wouldn’t be an investigation to focus on. There would be one awful policy or tirade or rally rant after another. That would be much more direct harm to individual people.

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        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 1
          Replying to @AltmanErin

          Undoubtedly more harm to individuals, even accounting for how much harm his immigration-related policies have done.

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        4. Erin Altman‏ @AltmanErin Jun 1
          Replying to @emptywheel

          If he’s already emboldened the individuals, groups, and even candidates he has, imagine if he tweeted as much about immigration or Muslims or BLM as he does about Russia. Or what sort of leaked horrors beyond “shithole countries” would be out there. He’s bad enough as it is.

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        2. Cmd.Pvt.Major‏ @DrunkenKarnie Jun 1
          Replying to @emptywheel

          GOP would've been less fractured against him, blindly following on the worst policies w/o question.

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        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 1
          Replying to @DrunkenKarnie

          GOP is remarkably unified, at least thus far.

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        4. Cmd.Pvt.Major‏ @DrunkenKarnie Jun 1
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Tribalism at its finest.

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        1. Mariya Strauss‏ @mariyastrauss Jun 4
          Replying to @emptywheel

          100%

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        1. wvgl‏ @wvgl Jun 1
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Agreed (even more) racial resentment-stoking would be damaging, but it could also be clarifying and potentially generative of positive change if the counter-Trump wagons were circled around BLM instead of federal prosecutors

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        1. wvgl‏ @wvgl Jun 1
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Interesting question. Emphasis on victimization by the "deep state" seems inevitable, given his thorough corruption, whether it is RU or something else, and hostility to institutional restraint.

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        1. James Moody‏ @GodlessLib_CB Jun 1
          Replying to @emptywheel

          I didn’t think about it in those terms before but that’s a good point. Most articles also directly say Russia occupies his brain and distracts him from “governing” (such that he is)

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        1. WELCOME TO MANISTAN‏ @HollyCareBear Jun 1
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          yeah i think it would be a lot like his twitter account from 2013-2016

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