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Miles Archer

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5. I think one reason why he "gets his way" is...

Reply to Hugin (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 20, 2026, 07:35 AM

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...that the other parties involved just want him to shut up and go away.

One of his central tricks of the trade is "repetition"...wearing down and exhausting his opponents.

A guy like Gavin Newsom may respond to Trump's bullying with "bark on, little doggie."

Others are more concerned about Trump's unpredictable, unstable psyche.

One thing is clear, and I know DU "gets it," and it's alarming that so much of the general public is apathetic / indifferent to this, but we ARE seeing a daily display of rapidly advancing mental illness. The media does its "Oh, that's just Trump being Trump" thing, but it's nowhere near as benign as that.

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