At this point Donald Trump’s speeches increasingly resemble the videos that Bin Laden would periodically release after 9/11, in which he kept vowing to pull off bigger and bigger attacks, even as it became more obvious he couldn’t pull off any such thing.
9/11 was Bin Laden’s one big shot. It cost him his home base, his ability to freely communicate, and so on. 1/6 was Trump’s one big shot, and it cost him in roughly the same way. All Bin Laden had left after 9/11 was the ability to scare us just for kicks. Same as Trump now.
The parallels are remarkable – right down to Bin Laden’s visibly declining health in his post 9/11 videos, and Trump’s visibly declining health in his rare public appearances.
Trump is dangerous post-1/6 in much the same way Bin Laden was dangerous post 9/11. In spite of having little actual power or muscle, his increasingly histrionic empty threats and calls for violence can have unpredictable dangerous fallout – but with no chance of benefiting him.
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