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A Study of the 2024 US Presidential Election, Part One: The Republican Primaries
Let’s leave the old man on the other side out of this, this remark, which is bound to be very nasty. Biden’s name has become his gravest fault, as anything said about him gets stuck, no matter if it’s true. We’ll get to Biden in another part of this series.
Trump deals with some of the same things as Biden: his name is poison. Trump’s persona, to justify this, is the arrogant motherfucker you knew in high school — bigger and richer than you, and he uses it, a cheap schoolyard bully, not nearly as smart as he believes, who has a tantrum whenver you stand up to him. If you are Donald Trump’s friend or family, you know you have a supporting role. You are an entourage. He will exile anyone as it suits his fading interest. He is a monstrosity who will turn on everyone, this man who’d convinced a wide group of frustrated people that he was telling the truth, and that he was a patriot. That’s talent I guess. Donald Trump is a supremely talented man, and it makes a majority of the world hate him
Trump shoves you around. He laughs at everything you say because it means nothing to him. Donald Trump doesn’t have any ideas of his own, so he steals yours and corrupts them. He disagrees with everything. He believes in nothing.
