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Garion_55

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Fri Aug 7, 2020, 04:28 AM Aug 2020

I've never understood Trumps re-election strategy. [View all]

I mean i know where he gets it. The strategy is play to the base first most and always. fuck the people who didnt vote for you. crush the other side on any legislation, no compromises. if you have 51% of the votes in congress, you get legislation passed that gives you 100% of what you want and you dont give the other side even 1 fucking %, even if they own 49% of the congress.

The strategy is only do shit that pleases your base period. you dont want even 1% of them leaving you. He gets that strategy from Hannity and Rush and Levin and heritage. Thats their playbook.

So here is what i dont understand.

Ive heard that trumps base will vote for him NO MATTER WHAT HE DOES. does that include him signing medicare for all, working with pelosi and schumer? because thats the smart thing, work on bringing liberals and moderates into your camp by giving them things they want. and you know that its safe for you to work with liberals because even if you pass liberal stuff, your base will never leave you NO MATTER WHAT HE DOES. (thats the claim right?)

his base + bringing in liberals = re-election win.

WHY doesnt he work more with liberals? give them stuff they want? anyone? anyone? bueller?.....


because the minute he starts working with liberals and giving them stuff to try to attract more voters, his base is going to turn on him and leave him and denounce him and adopt some other crazy leader like KID ROCK or CHACHI.

the whole idea that his base will never leave him is bullshit. the minute he tries passing shit that the nra doesnt want or the heritage foundation doesnt want or the chamber of commerce doesnt want, stuff that regular americans DO want, the right wing is going to turn on him so fast that its predictable.


they might do it anyway soon. this school disaster might finally be enough for his base to say fuck it im done.

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