He’s also a southern baptist but I doubt he’s actually religious. I *think* he’s a cross between a disillusioned liberal and a competent Steve Bannon. Nor racist but civilizationalist. Sees himself holding back barbarians at the gates. Even if he sometimes has to deal with them.
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I was looking for just about any human color to who he is and found nothing. No hobbies, no real interests outside of the political process, not even any policy interests besides the procedural one if campaign finance. He’s a banker of political capital.
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In many ways very similar to Trump, except within politics and actually successful. He runs a successful political casino and real estate business. SCOTUS is just his Trump tower. The difference is, he’s self-aware and not needy for validation as being things he is not.
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The nickname turtle is well-deserved. Hard to find a point of attack. It’s all shell. Only thing I think that will get to him is stuff spinning out of control in ways that money can’t fix for even his personal zone of power. Nearly uncritical belief in money is his only weakness.
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Hmm. Biden might be his perfect adversary. All ground game, no air game at all. Two effective but stylistically different 1:1 social network broker types grappling with each other. The difference is Biden is sensitive to narrative which is both a strength and a weakness.
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It’ll be very hard to get inside his OODA loop though. With a majority he’s Bartleby the scrivener “I would prefer not to” Without a majority he’s like “build up the warchest and ride it out till you win again.” Cut deals when weak, obstruct when strong.
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Besides cutting money lines and propping up internal competition the only real way to threaten him is to build up competing centers of power. Or perhaps go after whoever he works through. He wields too much power to do it alone, so weakness in personal staff should weaken him
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Interesting adversary. Whenever I’ve encountered this type, I’ve either co-opted or avoided them. Going directly up against them is almost never worth it. Absent a lucky break you have to be prepared for the same long attrition grind they are. Few care for the game that much.
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