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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 Profile picture
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Sep 2, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
“Trump advisers and allies characterize [it] as a lost summer defined by self-inflicted controversies and squandered opportunities. ... [M]any of the president’s advisers and outside allies bemoan what they consider to be a period of missed opportunity and self-sabotage.”
“[S]ome White House aides and outside Trump allies ... describ[e] an administration in which the president has crashed through the remaining guard rails. ... [J]obs that multiple aides once handled are now being filled by fewer staffers ....”

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“... and the president and his team failed to drive a sustained message or capitalize on what they view as winnable fights on the economy and immigration.”

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“A Republican operative in frequent touch with the White House described the mood from the ‘staff guys and gals’ as one of weariness. ‘Exhaustion, fatigue, wake us when it’s over’ ... ‘They’re just tired.’”

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 Profile picture
Feb 2
.@ruthbenghiat nails it:

"I have seen this brand of strongman megalomania and the adverse effects it can ultimately have on leaders and their governments. I call it autocratic backfire. …

"As autocrats surround themselves with loyalists who praise them and party functionaries who repeat their lies, leaders can start to believe their own hype. As they cut themselves off from expert advice and objective feedback, they start to promulgate unscrutinized policies that fail. Rather than course correct, such leaders often double down and engage in even riskier behavior — starting wars or escalating involvement in military conflicts that eventually reveal the human and financial tolls of their corruption and incompetence. The result: a disillusioned population that loses faith in the leader and elites who begin to rethink their support."

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I first came across the word "megalomania" as a kid when I read William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It's essentially a synonym for narcissistic sociopathy or malignant narcissism. All three terms accurately describe Trump.
And for the last several years, because I thought it so evocative of Trump and his circle, I have been urging people to watch "Downfall," the 2004 German-language film that depicts Hitler's last ten days or so in the Führerbunker. The movie brilliantly depicts the dictator's megalomania—as well as the malignant normality lived by his final followers as they cultishly adhered to him until the end.

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Happy Halloween from Clyde the Hot Dog and Gracie the Avocado!!
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You are psychotic.
And profoundly evil.

"'I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil,' [Miller's cousin and former babysitter Alisa] Kasmer wrote. 'I grieve what you’ve become, Stephen …. I will never knowingly let evil into my life, no matter whose blood it carries—including my own.'

"Kasmer points out that she and Miller were raised Jewish with stories about surviving pogroms, ghettos, and the Holocaust.

"'We celebrated holidays each year with the reminder to stand up and say "never again." But what you are doing breaks that sacred promise. It breaks everything we were taught,' she said."

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And here we go. The plan seems to be to go full 𝕾𝖈𝖍𝖚𝖙𝖟𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖋𝖋𝖊𝖑, to turn the nation into a military police state. They’re telling each other to be careful what they write down, but they’ve already written down too much. (1/7)
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This thread contains excerpts from the government’s June 2022 sentencing memorandum in 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖 𝙫. 𝙂𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙭𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡, No. 20 Cr. 330 (S.D.N.Y.).

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