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RandySF

(60,157 posts)
Wed Mar 25, 2020, 02:39 PM Mar 2020

Don't Expect Trump to Blow Himself Up

Democratic strategist Lis Smith tells Vanity Fair that expecting President Trump’s blunders to have political consequences all by themselves would be a huge mistake, as polls are already showing.

Said Smith: “That line of thinking drives me fucking nuts. Democrats always think that there’s going to be some divine intervention, that Trump will somehow self-destruct. That is a losing strategy.”

Jennifer Palmieri added: “What we used to think of as a politician setting himself on fire is how Trump thrives.”


https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/25/dont-expect-trump-to-blow-himself-up/

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renate

(13,776 posts)
1. "What we used to think of as a politician setting himself on fire is how Trump thrives."
Wed Mar 25, 2020, 02:40 PM
Mar 2020

Damn it. She's right.

It's literally a cult. The largest cult in the history of the world. So he's achieved something that his daddy didn't manage to do, I guess.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,159 posts)
3. Agreed, rump is literally telling NY to fuck off and he wont send them ventilators but when a red
Wed Mar 25, 2020, 02:41 PM
Mar 2020

state needs them he will

this will thrill his base

they do want us dead, they have for a long time

unblock

(52,570 posts)
5. Exactly. Donnie blues himself up daily
Wed Mar 25, 2020, 02:44 PM
Mar 2020

A reporter pitched him a softball question and he responded by calling the report terrible.

Any other politician's career would be over after such a display.

For Donnie and the inept media that gives him every break, it's just business as usual

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