Luckily, by all accounts, his base reached its ceiling long ago. This stuff keeps him from growing his base.
Succinctly put.
A huge portion of the American electorate only cares about one thing in choosing who they are going to vote for: whether that person has a D or an R next to their name. It's really that simple. Trump was absolutely correct when he said he could shoot someone in the middle of Times Square and people would still vote for him. There are just some people who are not going to vote Democrat in any situation, ever. Nothing will change their minds.
I fucking HATE the "fake news" rhetoric of his base. Anything outside of the Trump Jones cult is evil..or fake.
He's the product of a system that allowed someone like him to simply be at a rank in life where he never understood what it took to get there and how to effectively lead. I'm only talking about his business bullshit. He was never, ever qualified to run a gas station, let alone giant companies. So accountability and understanding were never and will never be a part of his toolset. Lacking empathy and morals are just a bonus. Also the whole being white thing.
The US uses a first-past-the-post electoral system (at least for the presidential elections), which means that someone can only win if they reach 270 electoral votes. That means, if the vote is split along three or more parties and no one hits that threshold, nobody wins and the Speaker of the House becomes president, IIRC. Because of this, it's really only viable to have two parties in play at a time. Otherwise you risk no one hitting that 270. That's why it's commonly said that voting third party is a waste of a vote here.
To him, everything is a zero-sum game. That's why a compromise in which everyone gets something (but not everything they wanted) is impossible with him, as to him that means you're a "loser", "not powerful", "not dominating".
The military is way more varied politically then you give it credit for.
They didn't care when he said it out loud, why would they care when someone else claims he said it private?
I mean it's pretty believable based on the Trump we know. The problem is the anonymous sources are cowards.
Maybe some are, but at least a few are active duty military. They aren't cowards.
Ah I missed that part. Is there a reason they can't attach their names to it? I assume there's some sort of conflict of interest since they are active?
That's right.
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