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24 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
1. Trump calling Buchanan a "Hitler-lover" is enlightening because it explains why Trump, who barks a lot about PC culture, is actually terrified of being publicly perceived as a racist, hence him being a much softer leader than his rhetoric suggests
2. So Trump is actually an arch "movement conservative," in the sense that he takes ideas, doesn't credit people, dilutes their ideas, and turns them into a grift
3. National Review opposed Buchanan for the same ideological reasons they opposed Trump (who was an unserious, incompetent version of Buchanan), which merely reinforces the point that NR truly is the home of invertebrates and not so beautiful losers
From The Vanishing Tradition: Perspectives on American Conservatism, ed. Paul Gottfried

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The Patriot Party will offer what the GOP offers--tax cuts, budget hawking, anti socialism and Democrats-R-the-Real-Racists talking points--but with "patriot" affixed to everything and it will make the the GOP's grift look honest by comparison
Almost everything with "Patriot" in the name is a disaster/grift. See: The Patriot Act
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The MAGA foundation is already raising money and Trump's team is working on a comms workaround. I've argued that Trump is transitional--but after November, people LARPed about him as Caesar on the Rubicon. When that fell apart, he became a symbol 1/
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Also, what is he a symbol of? When I argued with Cotto earlier, he had very different views of what is good and bad about Trump. What is that symbol to Greer vs Cotto? Is it tax cuts for Google or releasing drug kingpins or law and order or moving the embassy? 3/
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1. The right needs to avoid returning to the GOP/conservative outrage trap, i.e., "support us to stop socialism/Democrat racism!"

2. Trump needs to be separated from the right because all he does is grift

3. The right needs to build parallel networks and institutions
4. "Right" needs to indicate a socially conservative, economically moderate movement that is capable of attracting moderates through economic populism--healthcare and immigration are the two biggest issues, framed as attacking big pharma and labor exploitation
4, 2.0: Yeah there are other reasons to tackle healthcare and immigration, but framing it as a war on vicious, exploitative bugman oligarchs has the broadest appeal
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Trump pardoned Salomon Melgen, a Democrat megadonor who performed unnecessary, excruciating treatments on elderly patients in the biggest Medicare fraud in history. Melgen was also involved in Jeff Epstein-tier gross sex stuff. This is beyond disgusting and indefensible
Americans are living through the managerial revolution 2.0 and Democrats want to Uighurize white people and Trump pardons brown Jeff Epstein Democrat megadonor. This is actually so predictable, but it's important to reiterate it for people who don't get how awful Trump has become
Background on Melgen, who had a friend in, you guessed it, Jared Kushner!
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Trump starting a third party that would ultimately be another Jared Kushner grift while the country swings leftward would be the kind of psyop the CIA could only dream of with the amount of money and emotional investment that would be wasted
It would make Trust the Plan and QAnon look tame by comparison
Trump's campaign lifted half a billion dollars from voters. This would be that, on steroids, and Democrats would ultimately be the only ones benefitting from it, along with the people cashing in on the grift
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This amnesty is a win for neoconservatives and the irony is that Trump only approved it because he and Jared think it will boost the Trump name's clout with Latinos in Florida, where Ivanka needs Latino support for when she attempts to primary Marco Rubio 1/
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I can think of a few things currently happening in America that are more important than keeping your insanely ambitious and selfish daughter and her sociopathic bugman husband happy 3/
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