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Trump Raises an Army
Trumps supporters see him as vector; he sees them as market.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/opinion/trump-harvey-storm-army.html?mcubz=1
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Trump Raises an Army (Original Post)
Dulcinea
Aug 2017
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pangaia
(24,324 posts)1. RIGHT ON THE MONEY...
Wish I were not constrained to 4 paragrahps
But in addition, and perhaps more sinisterly, I think that Trump is raising an army, whether or not he would describe it as such, and whether or not those being involved recognize their own conscription. This is not a traditional army, but it is an army no less.
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Should something emerge from the Robert Mueller investigation an investigation that is continuing unabated even as Harvey rages that should implicate Trump and pose a threat to the continuation of his tenure, Trump wants to position any attempt to remove him as a political coup. His efforts to delegitimize the press are all part of this because one day the press may have to deliver ruinous news.
In that scenario, Trump knows that the oligarchs and establishment Republicans would be quick to abandon him. Their support isnt intrinsic; its transactional. But the base the market the ones with guns as well as those who are simply excited, the die-hards, the ones he keeps appealing to and applauding, will not forsake him. They see attacks on Trump as attacks on themselves.
Trump is playing an endgame. In the best-case scenario, these die-hards are future customers; in the worst, they are future confederates.
In that scenario, Trump knows that the oligarchs and establishment Republicans would be quick to abandon him. Their support isnt intrinsic; its transactional. But the base the market the ones with guns as well as those who are simply excited, the die-hards, the ones he keeps appealing to and applauding, will not forsake him. They see attacks on Trump as attacks on themselves.
Trump is playing an endgame. In the best-case scenario, these die-hards are future customers; in the worst, they are future confederates.
hedda_foil
(16,371 posts)2. And here's the money quote.
If these people should come to believe as Trump would have them believe that establishment systems have unfairly and conspiratorially acted to remove from office their last and only champion another thing Trump would have them believe what will they do?
What would Trumps army do if he were compelled to leave but refused to graciously comply
icymist
(15,888 posts)3. Good read.
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