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27 Nov, 6 tweets, 1 min read
Michelle Malkin in 2011:

"[Trump] built his entire empire in defiance of core Tea Party principle. It's time for those conservatives who've been flirting with Donald Trump to get serious themselves...
"Getting emails from conservatives 'welcoming' Ronald McDonald Chump. Would be refreshing to see more conservatives telling him to f— off."
hollywoodreporter.com/news/donald-tr…
Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck, National Review, Ben Shapiro ... they were existentially opposed to Trump up until the summer of 2016. They hated Trump for the same reasons people like me supported he: he was a "chaos candidate" attacking conservatives' "core principles."
By 2020, these same "Never Trumpers" were Trump's most diehard defenders. People like me either sat out or voted for Biden. Pretty telling.
*2015, rather.

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18 Nov
It is remarked how unified the American Right is right now. There has not been (at least not yet) a post-Trump “crackup” of any kind.
I randomly flipped on Sean Hannity on the radio. He’s interviewing Bill O’Reilly (!). They’re saying the same fundamental thing as Alex Jones (just with less bombast). They were even warning of violence if the “truth about the elections” gets out.
Much like the “Boogaloo” movement, they seem to imagine average normie conservatives taking to the streets—or even taking over the government—once the assumed corruption is revealed and the people learn that their sacred election was stolen from them.
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9 Nov
The Esper firing sums up well the extremely frustrating and toxic dynamic between Trump's political maneuvers and governing strategy and his fanbase.
Step 1: There is a decisive moment, crisis, or major opportunity

Step 2: Trump talks big, takes photo-ops, and generates extreme reactions from his opponents.

Step 3: Trum fails to take action, sends mixed signals, and generally bungles the opportunity.
Step 4: Trump lashes out at the people who gave him bad advice ... and then talks big again.

Step 5: Trump's fans announce that we're about to "see the real Trump," "the gloves are off," "he'll go full bore now," etc.

Rinse, repeat.
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9 Nov
Good background on Esper’s opposition to Trump utilizing the Insurrection Act to suppress BLM and Antifa rioters. nytimes.com/2020/11/09/us/…
In the decisive period last summer, Trump failed to act.

He now recognizes this obvious fact and lashes out at the guy who gave him bad advice and publicly opposed him.

Way too little, too late.
It’s clear that the riots and looting helped Trump politically. Biden did explicitly denounce rioting, but he just couldn’t disassociate himself from BLM. So it becamea a partisan, polarized issue. As frustrating as it is, the “This is Joe Biden’s America” memes sorta worked.
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8 Nov
I’ve been thinking about this...

My informed speculation is that Trump will concede in the next 48-72 hours.
As hilarious as a “shadow presidency” or “Great Schism” would be, I just don’t see him doing it.
Trump’s past behavior indicates that he’ll leave his biggest fans high and dry...but then benefit from an ambiguous situation in which they’re still fighting and sacrificing for him (e.g., The Proud Boys and The Birthers).
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8 Nov
Biden’s isn’t just promising centrism; he declares that polarization is a “choice,” and he can end it through empathy or good ol’ fashioned can-do or something.
This is extremely naïve rhetoric, and from what we know about potential cabinet appointments, Biden seems to mean it.
As I said in my forecast for the election, “back to normalcy” (whatever you think about it as an ideal) will fail. Biden will be attacked by forces within the general Left coalition (if not exactly Democrats).

radixjournal.com/2020/10/the-bl…
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7 Nov
The "Fake Politics" that Donald Trump embodied is coming to an end . . . the lie, told to average White Americans and dissidents alike, that we held power and were defeating our enemies through the antics of this buffoon is slowly being revealed for what it always was.
Now is the time for both meta-politics and real-politics. By meta-politics I mean what we believe and how we understand the world. This effort was largely squashed during the Trump episode.
Critical inquiry was silenced out of feat that we might be undermining Trump's agenda, the joys of "lib owning," and "the plan," which was taking place in secret.
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