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The idea that he’s playing 10-dimensional underwater chess is absurd, a defense mechanism for Trumpers and opponents alike. If you support Trump, it’s an escape hatch from the blindingly obvious reality that Trump is unfit and your support for him one of the great errors of /1
political judgment in your life. If you oppose Trump, you flirt with this bc you can’t/won’t admit that the country elected someone this unfit, dangerous, and, possibly, mentally ill. You don’t want to process that a guy like this has the nuclear codes, or that a POTUS has /2
white nationalist sympathies & regularly ‘jokes’ about staying in office beyond his term. This is the closest the US has ever come to Weimar-style politics, but that’s so frightening to admit, that fantasies that there is some master plan are easier. But there is no grand plan./3
Of course there isn’t. He’s just winging it, day by day, venting his insecurities through racism and misogyny, and talking himself into bizarre nothingburgers like the Denmark fiasco, his ‘diplomacy’ with N Korea, or Mexico will pay for the wall. It’s all a farce,and when it’s /4
over, no one will admit supporting it. History will disgrace Trump as it has Nixon. And White House documents will reveal that T was even more batty privately than we’ve seen publicly. There’s no chessmaster at work, no grand plan; the Trump Show is just gimmicks & prejudice. END
