Week 32 (of 208) 🧵 Standing on the Roof of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Shooting America in the Head A lot of people who know Donald Trump seem to like him. I would not, I like to think. 1/
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In truth though, I have been swayed by the smooth ways of charlatans a few times in my life. Others would try to warn me, or at least telegraphed strong aversions to these people, and yet, somehow, I fell for it. 2/
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A good con understands their mark intuitively, knows instinctively just how to build the rapport so necessary to be successful at their game. For the greats, it seems unscripted, unrehearsed, even unconscious. 3/
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It comes naturally to them, with an ability to say and do what would seem crazy, even repugnant, coming from someone else, and yet, you somehow accept and even admire them for it because that particular person said it or did it. You trust them, implicitly. You are effectively a cult member. 4/
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This describes about 38% of the American adult population, for whom Donald Trump seems to be able to do no wrong. None. 5/
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Not suspending the rights of, terrorizing, incarcerating and expelling a large underclass of people who have no political power but sustain large sectors of the economy through their underpaid labour. 6/
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Not bringing the military to police cities that have no need of them, with the soldiery ending up being assigned to pick up littler in public spaces. Certainly not the destruction of their beloved democratic republic through a variety of abuses that effectively disenfranchise millions of people. 7/
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Not open, bald-faced, clearly illegal self-enrichment that would put to shame the most corrupt regimes on the planet. Not even the obvious cover up of acts so abhorrent, so unforgivable, your soul must be a void if you allow them to pass. 8/
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When Donald Trump said during his 2016 presidential campaign “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”, he was acknowledging that he knows exactly the power of the hold he has over his followers. 9/
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Hi there, Nurse Coffy
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While a good many people see Donald Trump for what he is – a vindictive, completely amoral narcissist grifting the world for his own benefit – this 38% or so are certain that he is a force for good, some even believe he was sent by god to right all wrongs. 10/
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It’s not stupidity. It’s shared identity. The vast majority of this stubborn knot of supporters have in common race, religion, education, culture, and a strong identification with the mythical American Dream of the 1950’s... 11/
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