Erick Erickson, a Georgia Republican insider, said bluntly on Friday that former President Donald Trump is in real trouble after his frantic efforts to make himself more palatable to voters who believe in reproductive rights and other key issues. Writing on X, Erickson claimed to have had "privat...
  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    14·
    4 months ago

    no respect for the country, or anyone in it.

    that’s why those people love trump. because the venn diagram of people he hates somewhat overlaps the circle of people they hate. and since they’re stupid, it doesn’t even matter that they are themselves within the circle of people trump hates

    • Lost_My_Mind@piefed.social
      2·
      4 months ago

      Kind of like Hitler saying “We kill all non-Blonde haired blue eye’d Aryan Germans” and then the Japanese were like “May we join in?”

      If Hitler had won, there would have been a Nazi/German War sometime in the 60s, after he sent all the Russians to concentration camps, and taken over all of Russia.

      Granted, I’m veering off into alternate history, but you can see my point, right?

      • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8·
        4 months ago

        why turn to alternate history when actual history works just fine?

        His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

        https://phdn.org/archives/www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/documents/osssection3pt1.htm