The RNC weaponized exhaustion, The sheer volume of lies and illegal behavior from Trump & GOP...

[Demovictory9]

The RNC weaponized exhaustion
The sheer volume of lies and illegal behavior from Trump and the Republicans is what allowed them to get away with it.


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Writing honestly about the RNC requires centering the dishonesty. But adequately describing the sheer breadth and brazenness of the lying that was on display these past four days would take volumes. And after a certain point, the whole thing reaches diminishing returns: Some depressing political science research suggests that pointing out when Trump is lying doesn’t actually change the way voters feel about him.

And that’s the dark brilliance of the RNC, and maybe the entire Trump presidency. If you just lie and break legal rules frequently enough and brazenly enough, the sheer volume of misconduct will overwhelm the systems that are designed to check them.



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Trump gets away with this not despite the severity of the abuses but because of them. When the wrongdoing is so flagrant and so widespread, so routinized in the functioning of government, it becomes impossible to separate the misconduct from the Trump administration itself. What is the Office of the Special Counsel, the federal agency that handles Hatch Act violations, supposed to do — kick out the entire White House staff?

This same tactic also works to keep the Republican Party in line. In the past, members of a president’s party might be willing to criticize isolated instances of misconduct by the president or his staff. But with Trump, the dishonesty and criminality are so baked in that the GOP can’t realistically go after it without discrediting the entirety of his presidency. So they’re faced with a choice: undermine their own hold on power or go along with the degradation.

It’s very clear they’ve chosen the second.

“One notable thing about Trump’s dishonesty last night: almost all of it was in his prepared text,” writes Dale, the CNN fact-checker. “In general, the vast majority of his lying as president has been ad-libbed. In campaign season, they start putting the lies in the scripts.”

https://www.vox.com/2020/8/28/21405144/trump-rnc-speech-fact-check-lies-hatch-act

[StClone]

1. KAOS-the old Nemesis of Maxwell Smart

Kremlin Against Our States! We can defeat that 35 percent who support chaos.

[FM123]

2. Yep, the battle fatigue is real.

[tanyev]

3. That's how Trump gets away with so much--has always gotten away with so much.

I never paid any attention to him before he ran for president, but he does have an astonishing capacity to release an endless tsunami of lies and bullshit. By the time the system starts going after him for something, he's already got hundreds or thousands more lies and scams on the table. He and the current Republican Party were made for each other.

[Demovictory9]

4. yep... during his convention at the WH he was practically winking

"look at what I'm getting away with now... convention at the WH".

[Nevilledog]

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