Thought experiment: If Trump didn't have the Russian investigation to stage his victimhood on, what would he have used?
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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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Great point! And the “FBI witch hunt” victimhood, as destructive as it is to norms, puts him on the defensive, as opposed to the unwarranted, aggressive, extremely dangerous, racist anti-immigrant nativism of the campaign.
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