• kingofras@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    By thinking of him as an idiot we’ve gotten this far.

    Who else could shift the overton window so fast from George Floyd to the last 3 deaths in the last one week and let be it almost completely absent in the mainstream media? He’s certainly not a very stable genius. And he is cornered on a number of levels, but he was like this his entire life. He is an expert in surviving and has come to believe the rules don’t apply to him.

    He’s been front and centre for an entire decade, and apart from brief lulls when the Epstein Files came up, he’s been setting and dominating the international conversation all that time, while president and while on trial and convicted as a criminal.

    He’s closer to Hitler’s cunning nature than that of an idiot in my view.

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      3 days ago

      He’s a kind of genius, especially with regard to media presentation and mafioso-style personnel management

      But he is also out of his element. Those things work great in the world of real estate but when managing a state they run up against harder realities. TBF, Trump’s biggest advantage over this is complete apathy about longterm consequences