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They’ll find some face-saving sidelined role for him and a different way to keep the activated new base engaged and enraged. He was the booster rocket. They’re in orbit now. He’s no longer needed and a serious liability for the exercise of actual political power.
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Again I’m not sure. His past TV appeal was based on camp. The audience was mostly laughing at him, not admiring him as he thought. His POTUS rhetorical style was based on whining and evasion and posturing which does not translate well to even Sean Hannity style commentary.
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If he loses, he takes over OANN or Newsmax and immediately dethrones Fox as the leading cable news network.
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He likes to be the center of attention, not comment from the sidelines or merely own the media empire from the back room like Murdoch. Also note that a lot of his charisma is derived from being in office. It’s not clear to me his base will see him the same out of it.
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When people go out on top on their own terms, like star athletes who retire at the right time, many doors are open. I think people are underestimating the effects of even a narrow loss all around. He’ll milk the “unfair theft” shtick for a while but it’s not a career.
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I’m not writing him off. He’s more of a live player at 73 than I am at 47. Runs on pure bile which seems to act as an astonishing elixir of life for him. He’ll find some way to matter. It just won’t be the 2 obvious possibilities of offstage kingmaker in politics or media.
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True. The birther thing was a major kayfabe win. I’d expect something along those lines. Producer and booster of conspiracy theories. Maybe even documentaries like Al Gore.
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His whole schtick previously was tweeting about Obama though. He can resume that with a much larger audience (cult) than he had
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If he wins with PA, it will be vindication of the value of technically correct and statsistically conservative strategy in a game with a long history. He bet on the boring play of rebuilding the Blue Wall that Trump breached in 2016. No fancy narrative. Just do the math right.
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It would be poetic justice if a figurative “rebuilt wall” kept Trump from a second term. Tactical fumbles like the Latinos-against-Socialism stuff in Florida foreshadow future strategic concerns, but in the short term, betting on the proven strategy seems to have been wise.
This might be the first time I've noticed NYT baldly use the word "lies" in a headline about Trump instead of euphemisms like "claimed without evidence" ... has this happened before?
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Getting bored by this. That’s a good sign. We’re not going back to normal, but we can potentially go back to boring for a while.
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If Biden brings it home I would like to request an ASMR presidency. Happy little trees. Free Bob Ross painting kit for everyone with next stimulus check.
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Oh I just realized Token Republican on CNN is Rick Santorum. This is a world I do rarely pay attention to I don’t know most of the players by face.
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