Thread by @swin24

purely anecdotal but: for years as i sourced up w/ admin & Trumpworld folks I found that it was useful to be immediately upfront & transparent & let the aide/official/Trump friend/whoever know off the bat how much I despised Trump & thought is policies, et al were garbage...

…It had an effect of establishing at the start “ok, we both know where each person is coming from, there’s no mystery here, if each wants to keep talking, let’s keep talking.” I found it way more useful than pretending that I was coming in as a “just the facts, ma’am” apolitical

…kind of guy. I saw that most of the time, the Trump person appreciated this, & considered me less of a phony, or w/e. My limited sense of trying this version of the approach, but w/ Biden people, is that it doesn’t work as well on them...

…I stopped for a sec the other day to ask myself why and it became kinda obvious after a moment’s thought. A bell went off in my head that: “Oh, wait the Biden people largely actually like & are protective of Biden & unlike the Trump people, they largely don’t secretly...

…agree w/ you that their guy is the most blundering, idiotic dipshit alive."

I think that accounts for much, if not most, of the discrepancy there.

I could be wrong, but my prediction is there will be far fewer tell-all books coming out of the Biden era where senior people go on the record to say that Biden is destroying the country/democracy/international relations/our family/et al, and is a massive tit who everyone hates