Thread by @ThyConsigliori

#MAGAanalysis - 18 January 2023

Trump Has The Right Name

The brilliant tweet below, by my friend @FloridaBoyMedia, solved a YUGE problem for me. Why did @realDonaldTrump support @kevinomccarthy for speaker? Until the tweet below, I could not square that circle. Now I can.

https://twitter.com/FloridaBoyMedia/status/1611599707884736513

2) The simple fact is that McCArthy is a natural enemy of Trump's, and of the #MAGA Movement, exactly as Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are. All of us sycophantic Trump supporters wanted him to be a temporary Speaker, himself. Alas.

3) Thing is, if we know nothing else about Trump, we know he does business with his enemies. Think of Kim Jong Un. No missile tests during Trump's administration. And how many since Let's Go Brandon? It ain't zero.

4) We know more. We know Trump is an absolute - maybe the greatest ever - master of Sun Tzu's Art Of War. This is a paraphrase: The best way to defeat an enemy is to make him a friend.

5) This is not a paraphrase: the ultimate in warfare is to defeat an enemy without setting foot upon a battlefield. I don't know the following, but it's a decent theory. Follow it out...

6) So, here's Trump watching the election, witnessing the millions McCarthy is spending to defeat Trump's candidates. He observes a massive #REDWAVE turn into a tiny #redtrickle. Does he get pissed? Most likely, and YUGELY. But Trump gives himself the time to calm down and think.

7) Now he sees the outcome of the election and low and behold, Trump has a mini-posse of true blue loyalists in the House, who will listen and comply. Can you see that delicious Trump evil smile beaming?

8) Since McCarthy has such a tiny margin of victory, all due to his own idiotic doing, Trump's Loyal Posse are enough to prevent McCarthy's speakership. They can thwart him all day and all night long, long as they require. How fun!!!

9) Can you say the word "concession?" No, it has to be plural. Concessions, and more concessions? And can you say "readily in hand?" That's what @FloridaBoyMedia made me see. How did he put it?

"Trump won this for McCarthy and in doing so empowered the Freedom Caucus."

10) That's got to be one of the best, single-sentence analyses I've ever read. And I'm not exaggerating when I tell you I did NOT see it. I was running around baffled, no kidding. Let me tell you, that inspires pure awe in my heart.

11) Now stretch that clear understanding forward for the entirety of the 118th Congress. The Democrats want anything? They have to negotiate with the Freedom Caucus. The Republicans want anything? They have to negotiate with the Freedom Caucus. The word for that is LEVERAGE.

12) And that has Trump's signature all over it.

13) I have to take my theory just one step deeper. Maybe McCarthy is, underneath his previously necessary political persona, he's actually a patriot. Maybe he hated who he was. Maybe Trump saw that. Maybe Trump offered him redemption.

14) Sure he might just be a really talented Swamp Chameleon, a great actor. But I'm thinking maybe not. He appears, to my eye, just a bit too natural in this new role, like maybe he still had a patriotic dream living beneath the surface of his disgusting Swampiness.

15) That's my theory. Trump trumped again, playing a trump card that only he could play, as only he could see it. Well him, and our man @FloridaBoyMedia. Yeah, this one gets a WOW out of me. Thanks my friend. I'm in your debt here. Awesome work!!!

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