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Since when was it a crime for a politician or candidate 2022-12-29 5699 - 150 5 1538 1 trumpism
Dixiecrat Trumpists remind us of all the taxpayer money 2022-12-23 8271 - 204 13 3231 trumpism
DeSantis already sees Trump in his rear-view mirror. 2022-12-14 4588 - 67 8 1945 1 trumpism
“Kanye. Elon. Trump.” - House Judiciary GOP 2022-12-02 171 - 150 trumpism
Chosen by God! 2022-11-28 2831 - 82 6 1107 trumpism
Trump won the hearts of a big - but no longer growing - 2022-11-23 2418 - 20 2 737 trumpism
check out the scoreboard 2022-11-21 2494 - 4 1 842 trumpism
The GOP House agenda - 2022-11-20 1782 - 17 4 451 trumpism
American politics is defined nowadays by primaries, money, 2022-11-20 1862 - 21 2 697 trumpism
Surely Josh Hawley, JD Yale Law, must have learned 2022-11-18 248 - 3 1 310 trumpism
GOP Plan A: convince voters that Democratic investigations 2022-11-18 1612 - 41 868 1 trumpism
By indicating that he only had one issue with Trump - 2022-11-16 1406 - 30 1 712 trumpism
Many voiced disbelief that the two men would ever run 2022-11-13 3216 - 40 4 1429 trumpism
Some Coloradans are getting tired of Boebert's antics. 2022-11-12 12 - trumpism
Damn the election torpedoes! Full speed ahead for Trump! 2022-11-11 2046 - 3 1 738 trumpism
DeSantis was sent by God 2022-11-10 14 - 2 trumpism
2022 midterm election results: 2022-11-09 6903 - 72 4 2398 1 trumpism
Look out, Trump, DeSantis, not to mention Pence, Pompeo, 2022-11-04 17 - trumpism
“Republicans will never lose another election in 2022-11-03 30 - 1 1 trumpism
Styles of GOP response to Trumpist-inspired political 2022-11-01 17 - trumpism
Who's going to be the first Trumpist who qualifies his 2022-10-30 25 - 1 2 trumpism
They are only fulfilling the wishes of their leader 2022-10-29 18 - 1 trumpism
Trump and DeSantis and - O'Dea? 2022-10-25 4734 - 113 2 1927 trumpism
Many Trumpist candidates need to pretend to be more 2022-10-21 3482 - 34 4 882 trumpism
Chosen by God - just like Hitler, Stalin, Putin,... 2022-10-20 10839 - 366 42 4226 1 trumpism
The countermajoritarian part of the American political 2022-10-12 4203 - 64 19 967 1 trumpism
“If Trump won reelection in 2024, how long until 2022-10-10 22 - 1 1 trumpism
Minority rule depends on maintaining the enthusiasm of 2022-10-08 12 - 2 trumpism
Are we heading toward regional federalism? 2022-10-07 9 - trumpism
The Electoral Count Reform Act would reduce the impact of 2022-10-06 10 - trumpism
Foreign wars were a great way for the ruling class to 2022-09-24 9 - 1 trumpism
LOL Nothing Matters - 2022-09-22 11 - 1 trumpism
Chosen by God - just like Hitler, Stalin, Putin,... 2022-09-14 5589 - 379 18 2117 1 trumpism
Trumpism doesn't need Trump any more than Peronism needs 2022-09-11 3684 - 71 17 1102 1 trumpism
Who are the RINO's? 2022-09-07 17046 - 233 49 7214 trumpism
Traditional conservative daydreams with a populist slant - 2022-08-18 4859 - 188 2 1148 1 trumpism
The essence of minority rule is to get the masses to 2022-08-03 16 - trumpism
When you disprove somebody's religion, they don't thank 2022-07-03 9 - trumpism
Dictators obtain power by promising things they can't and 2022-06-18 9 - 1 trumpism
Politicians travel in herds for safety. If prominent 2022-05-25 10 - trumpism
Ultra-MAGA - who benefits from that label? 2022-05-16 9 - trumpism
Theodore Bilbo - a man who, 70 years in advance, knew more 2022-05-16 11 - trumpism
Trumpists have been around since 1619 under various names 2022-05-09 10 - trumpism
Abortion restrictions don't bother rich donors who can 2022-05-02 9 - trumpism
The modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is not conservative in 2022-05-01 8 - trumpism
What does the Ohio senate campaign teach us about Trumpism? 2022-05-01 8 - trumpism
If it's President DeSantis in 2025 - we might be longing 2022-04-30 5 - 1 1 1 trumpism
Trump's greatest achievement - proving that traditional 2022-04-21 4 - trumpism
Precepts of Trumpism 2022-03-07 6 - trumpism
How will America First play out in 2022 and 2024? 2022-03-05 5 - trumpism
The real question is - if Putin invaded Florida to 2022-03-03 10 - trumpism
Until the Republican Party examines the way Trump’s 2022-03-02 9 - trumpism
McConnell AND McCarthy are unclear on the concept! 2022-02-28 9 - trumpism
Unclear on the concept! 2022-02-27 7 - 3 trumpism
Canadian trucking crisis - it's all about influencing US 2022-02-17 7 - 1 trumpism
Protest convenient for Trumpism! Encourage legitimate 2022-02-14 9 - 1 trumpism
The anti-Trump constituency is one out of 10 Republican 2022-02-09 8 - trumpism
Unclear on the concept! 2022-02-04 7 - trumpism
The Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP Big Tent has room for QAnons 2022-02-01 5 - trumpism
What is the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican Party? 2022-01-30 8 - trumpism
Recovering Trumpist advises other recovering Trumpists. 2022-01-27 4 - trumpism
Sounds like Tucker Carlson is making his play for the 2024 2022-01-27 6 - trumpism
Is the Trump star waxing or waning? You can see 2022-01-18 4 - trumpism
Can DeSantis get away with it? He’s Trump but a little 2022-01-17 14 1 trumpism
Democratic hopes in 2022 and 2024 hinge on Trump keeping 2022-01-15 4 - trumpism
Did you enjoy the endless investigations of Benghazi and 2022-01-15 6 - trumpism
Just another day in the life of a Trump. 2022-01-12 17 2 trumpism
SOME GOP senators are willing to defend a colleague from 2022-01-11 5 - trumpism
Another traditional conservative unclear on the Trumpist 2022-01-03 6 - trumpism
Conspiracism as reality-TV and pro wrestling! It's all 2022-01-03 9 - trumpism

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Since when was it a crime for a politician or candidate
to lie?     It's practically a prerequisite for Trumpism -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump

 https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/post-interviews-trump-on-santos-satire/

which Santos proudly embraces -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/07/republican-house-candidates-2022-crazy/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/new-members-of-congress/

 https://georgeforny.com/former-trump-campaign-staffer-joins-santos-campaign/

 https://dccc.org/the-case-against-george-santos/

Trump did not endorse Santos - Trump only endorsed
candidates he thought were winners!

 https://ballotpedia.org/Endorsements_by_Donald_Trump#2022

But maybe Trump should have endorsed him - Santos is riding
the Trumpist wave of the future!     A vote for Santos is
a vote for Trumpism.

 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/george-santos-is-not-an-aberration-hes-the-poster-child-for-the-maga-gop-opinion/ar-AA15MsYA

Now the authorities in Congress and New York might be
taking a closer look -

 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-republicans-speak-against-george-santos-lies-call-investigation

 https://apnews.com/article/Republican-George-Santos-Investigation-New-York-d783ca654dc08aba892f694ef2584af7

But McCarthy can't say anything because he can't afford
to lose a single vote -

 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/santos-scandal-crashes-into-mccarthy-speakership-battle/ar-AA15KQXN

Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome Better
sooner than later!

 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mcconnell-complains-candidate-quality-investing-senate-races-gop-contenders

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Dixiecrat Trumpists remind us of all the taxpayer money
that could have been saved if only -

Washington had negotiated with the British instead of
wintering at Valley Forge

Lincoln had negotiated with the Confederacy instead of
resisting

FDR had negotiated with Hitler and Tojo instead of becoming
the arsenal of democracy

Harry Truman had negotiated with Stalin instead of
airlifting to Berlin

Then, as now, negotiate is Putinese for unconditional
surrender, or unconditional acceptance of the aggressor's
demands, or at best, a cease-fire until the aggressor can
resume the war.     As in Neville Chamberlain at Munich.

 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/conservative-rips-apart-maga-claims-that-ukraine-s-president-is-fighting-a-war-on-christianity/ar-AA15Bs9r

But now, as then, it's always cheaper to stop Russian
aggression early and far away, than when it's in Alaska.

 https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/us-elections-government/ny-maga-republicans-slam-ukraine-president-zelenskyy-20221221-gaem32revnd4vgom6jis74sncq-story.html

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DeSantis already sees Trump in his rear-view mirror.

 https://cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/desantis-covid-vaccine-manufacturers/index.html

Florida Trumpists agree.  But he's missing a good bet for
publicity about immigration -

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1774625046215340

What about the rest of the country?  A bold and competent
Trump replacement - that's something to worry about!

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“Kanye. Elon. Trump.” - House Judiciary GOP

 https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/01/kanye-west-alex-jones-hilter-interview/

Ever seen the Stoppard play Leopoldstadt?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldstadt_(play)

If you're a Jewish megadonor for Trump or Trumpism, maybe
you should.

 https://msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michelle-goldberg-antisemitism-is-going-mainstream-trumps-helping/ar-AA14IqNS

 https://gocomics.com/jackohman/2022/11/30

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Chosen by God!

Hitler was chosen by God to save Germany and the white
race!

 https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/british-church-worshipped-hitler

Putin was chosen by God to save Russia!

 https://www.christianpost.com/news/vladimir-putin-sent-by-god.html

Trump was chosen by God to save America!

 https://www.salon.com/2019/08/22/evangelicals-told-trump-he-was-chosen-by-god-now-he-says-it-himself/

DeSantis was chosen by God to save America!

 https://ifapray.org/blog/desantis-says-put-on-the-full-armor-of-god/

There is no Divine Right of Kings - or presidents -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_kings

Kings were not chosen by God's will to advance God's
goals for God's people.  Kings usually obtained power by
choosing of their own free will to murder their rivals,
in order to advance their own goals for themselves and
their descendants.

Likewise, Donald Trump was chosen by Donald Trump's free
will to advance Donald Trump's goals for Donald Trump. He
obtained power by choosing of his own free will to defeat
his rivals - exploiting the GOP's reluctance to embrace
ranked-choice voting.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

Trump intends to do it again.

More at -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump

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 https://www.salon.com/2019/08/22/evangelicals-told-trump-he-was-chosen-by-god-now-he-says-it-himself/

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Trump won the hearts of a big - but no longer growing -
minority of voters by setting the example of being bad
and giving those voters permission to be bad too -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

No need to know about, or even pretend to care about,
much less  pursue, the Enlightenment ideals of America's
founders -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html

“Here you come again, just when I’ve begun to get
myself together”

 https://triblive.com/opinion/leonard-pitts-jr-here-comes-trump-again/

But Trumpism can thrive without Trump!

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check out the scoreboard

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/21/trump-republicans-elections/

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/politics/paul-ryan-never-again-trump-2024/index.html

If they can convince the megadonors not to make another
losing bet, they can convince the voters.

Democrats are hoping to run against Trump -

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/politics/joe-biden-reelection-2024-trump-republican/index.html

And we might rue the day that Trump lost out -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/21/desantis-republican-free-speech-trump/

DeSantis is smarter, bolder, more vigorous, more strategic,
and has more momentum and less baggage.     He dares to go
where Trump fears to tread - so much the worse for America!

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 https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/politics/paul-ryan-never-again-trump-2024/index.html

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The GOP House agenda -

 https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/18/congress-republicans-investigations-hunter-biden/

It boils down to getting on Fox, early and often.
Just like Benghazi.     They don't need to actually find
anything, just pretend that they are ABOUT to find some
confirmation of something they read on the internet.

Then they are sure they'll be rewarded with control of
the White House and Congress in 2024.      Either by
embracing Trump and Trumpism more, or by embracing
Trumpism and somebody else more, or by embracing Trumpism
much less enthusiastically and yet somebody else more -
they don't seem to be able to agree on the ultimate goal.
But investigations are sure to help!

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American politics is defined nowadays by primaries, money,
social media and celebrity

Although we're stuck with propaganda media and celebrity,
you might think America could do something about the
primaries

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential
-

and the unlimited dark campaign money

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations
-

But they are essential pillars of minority rule and so
can't be undone -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html

though perhaps their effects can be limited by regional
federalism -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html

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Republican officials seem to be hoping that their
voters will do their dirty work for them and deliver
them from Trump — reversing the usual roles of leaders
and followers

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/17/republican-leaders-must-purge-trump-extremism/

And it's not just Trump - it's Trumpism - a Trumpist
Dixiecrat cult of personality can thrive without Trump!

Trump won the hearts of a big - but no longer growing -
minority of voters by setting the example of being bad
and giving those voters permission to be bad too -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

No need to know about, or even pretend to care about,
much less  pursue, the Enlightenment ideals of America's
founders -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html

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Surely Josh Hawley, JD Yale Law, must have learned
SOMEWHERE that working people don't pay for the GOP,
megadonors do -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop

And if you've got the megadonors, you can get the votes.
Usually!

A reborn Republican Party must look very different. It
must offer good jobs and good lives, not just higher stock
prices for Wall Street.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/18/josh-hawley-oped-republican-party-working-people/

Now if he meant that the GOP should just TALK about
good jobs and good lives, just like always, then we'd
understand.  But GOP doesn't need to change anything to
talk the talk.

If he really meant improving the lives of working people,
he'd mean bipartisan initiatives with Democrats.  But that
wouldn't be very Trumpist, would it!

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GOP Plan A: convince voters that Democratic investigations
are just political witch-hunts, and Republicans are not.

GOP Plan B: convince voters by example that ALL
investigations are just political witch-hunts. It's just
another variation on the everybody's equally corrupt
Trumpist theme -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump

Either way, they win.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/18/marjorie-taylor-greene-house-gop-investigations-maga-trump/

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By indicating that he only had one issue with Trump -
the 2020 election - Pence implies that he had no issue
with the rest of the Trump personality cult.    So why he
would go along with it for four years, and then object at
its logical culmination on Jan 6, doesn't quite add up.
Especially if he isn't upset enough about it to testify
to the Jan 6 committee.

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/mike-pence-book-trump-january-6/index.html

It's good to remember your principles at the final hour,
but more efficient to remember them much sooner.

And in a personality cult, there is no Trump-Pence Agenda -
just a Trump Agenda.

==

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Many voiced disbelief that the two men would ever run
against each other because they seem so closely aligned

Unclear on the concept of cult of personality!    The
bitterness of the contest is INVERSELY proportional to
the similarity of the contestants - as memorably brought
to life by Python -

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS-0Az7dgRY

And there's never room for TWO megalomaniacs -

 https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-ron-desantis-donald-trump-c8a3a7e58d35061f8662ead819861005

Succession in a cult of personality is usually rather
bitter - and hazardous for everybody within range of
collateral damage.

His rivals agree that Trumpism can get along fine without
Trump -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist

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Some Coloradans are getting tired of Boebert's antics.

 https://cnn.com/2022/11/11/opinions/colorado-race-boebert-frisch-lenti/index.html

She might win anyway - barely.   This time.

#PS1trumpism

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Damn the election torpedoes!  Full speed ahead for Trump!

 https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3731337-jason-miller-trump-wants-people-to-know-that-of-course-hes-running-in-2024/

Maybe Trump feels it's more important to get a head start
against any coming indictments, than to support Herschel
Walker.

And he let his requirements on McCarthy be known -

 https://politicalwire.com/2022/11/11/trump-sets-his-conditions-for-kevin-mccarthy/

In particular, that might mean no praise for DeSantis and
no bipartisanship with Biden.

But what if the right move would be to kiss DeSantis'
ring rather than Trump's?   Some in McCarthy's caucus
might think the wind is blowing that way -

 https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3727625-texas-gop-chairman-desantis-offers-winning-brand-for-party/

And some others in McCarthy's caucus are already against
him no matter what -

 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/group-staffed-by-ex-trump-officials-working-to-block-mccarthys-speaker-bid

As if McCarthy were responsible for the Roe v Wade reversal
or for Trump's making himself the biggest issue in the
election.

And the tossups NV-1,3,4 were just called for Democrats.
At this point, it sounds like McCarthy's best bet is to
hope to have one LESS than a majority.     Then nobody
will bother trying to replace him as (minority) leader.
Or McCarthy just might be better off back home in
Bakersfield.  Just ask Ryan or Boehner.   McCarthy's no
Henry Clay or Sam Rayburn.

And some are talking that way about McConnell too, though
he was the one who warned them what would happen -

 https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2022/11/11/the-new-gop-leadership-litmus-tests-00066526?nname=playbook-pm&nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&nrid=0000014e-f0ed-dd93-ad7f-f8edad790000&nlid=964328

McConnell's no LBJ but he's more adept than McCarthy.

What would Jesus do?    Just ask DeSantis!    Everybody
else will - sooner or later.  Or else!

 https://twitter.com/CaseyDeSantis/status/1588539069243473924

Transitions from one cult of personality to another
are always fraught with collateral damage for everybody
within range.

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DeSantis was sent by God

 https://nytimes.com/2022/11/09/opinion/ron-desantis-god-complex.html

and so God prepared the perfect political storm to make
him look good -

 https://nytimes.com/2022/11/09/opinion/ron-desantis-midterms.html

so DeSantis and Trumpism would become one and the same.

It was God, wasn't it?   By their fruits shall ye know
them!

#PS1trumpism

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2022 midterm election results:

DeSantis +1 Biden 0 Pelosi 0 Schumer 0 Trumpism 0 Trump -1

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/08/takeaways-midterms-election-2022/

Fox has already declared for DeSantis -

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/media/fox-news-desantis-celebration/index.html

 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/conservative-twitter-ready-crown-desantis-head-party-decisive-election-win

and DeSantis is full steam ahead -

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/politics/ron-desantis-2024-president-trump-florida/index.html

Trump had a very bad night -

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/politics/gop-midterms-trump-2024/index.html

So who's to blame?   Not Trump!

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/politics/donald-trump-2022-election-midterms/index.html

Maybe Melania?

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/09/donald-trump-blames-melania-for-advising-him-to-back-dr-oz-reports-say/

Georgia needs to be the focus of every Republican in the
country right now”

 https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-2024-republicans-midterms-43d088c71c2984a66fdbd5c2296f48fc

You'd think that an experienced Trumpist like Jason Miller
would know better by now - clearly TRUMP needs to be the
focus of every Republican in the country right now, same
as always.     But then again, every experienced Trumpist
is an agile self-serving opportunist, just like Trump,
who'll jump ship the instant he spots a better opportunity.

==

The future looks bad for democracy - won a battle,
lost a war?    DeSantis is smarter and bolder and more
strategic than Trump, but lacks his reality-TV instincts.
He won't swerve off course to settle minor scores.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/09/desantis-trump-2024-presidential-election/

Who says Trumpism needs Trump?

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Look out, Trump, DeSantis, not to mention Pence, Pompeo,
Cruz, Hawley - Musk has more money AND a bigger, more
rabid fan base!      But the good news is he has Palin's
attention span.

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/03/meet-the-silicon-valley-dad-who-has-elon-musks-ear-his-gushing-tweets-prove-it/

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“Republicans will never lose another election in
Wisconsin after I’m elected governor”

 https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/republicans-rig-elections-never-lose/

It's been the Trumpist plan all along!  A strong ruler
like Putin or Xi never loses an election!  Any rule-of-law
Republicans who are silent are enablers.

#PS1trumpism

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Styles of GOP response to Trumpist-inspired political
violence -

Old style -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/31/pelosi-attack-gop-strategist-condemn/

Future style -

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/donald-trump-jr-paul-pelosi-reaction/index.html

Current style -

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/donald-trump-paul-pelosi-reaction/index.html

Never let the facts get in the way of a good fantasy!

Could Trumpists just be shameless self-serving
opportunists?

Just raising the question!

#PS1trumpism

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Who's going to be the first Trumpist who qualifies his
condolences with  -

- blaming Nancy Pelosi for the attack

- classifying the attacker as a patriot and political
prisoner like the Jan 6 violent insurrectionists

 https://apnews.com/article/california-san-francisco-nancy-pelosi-government-and-politics-paul-ba57573b581adbc12d2741f801934fc8

- adding an appeal for legal defense and campaign funds

==

Other fantasies started less than nine hours after the
attack -

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/pelosi-attack-right-wing-conspiracy-theories-invs/index.html

Don Jr was not the last to join in - it's just his cup of
tea -

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/donald-trump-jr-paul-pelosi-reaction/index.html

Musk might have started down that path and then thought
better, or was restrained.

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/30/elon-musk-tweets-unfounded-claims-about-paul-pelosi-attack/

But he unleashed quite a storm from the usual suspects -

 https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-elon-musk-technology-misinformation-nancy-pelosi-42c1a39e8df739065abd70c400240d84

In any case, all who qualify and do NOT recant can find
a home on the new Twitter.

==

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They are only fulfilling the wishes of their leader
Trump! Even though they know he won't do anything for them
in return.

 https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-san-francisco-nancy-pelosi-congress-government-and-politics-b8a3fb8b3e6f491fcfb16e155b877427

It takes much courage to serve in Congress.   That's
exactly what the megadonors supporting minority rule want
- to intimidate as many potential opposition candidates
as possible.

#PS1trumpism

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Trump and DeSantis and - O'Dea?

 https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/24/trump-desantis-2024-election-colorado/

Distancing himself from Trump means being able to run
against both Trump and Biden, which Bennet can’t do.

Colorado needs Bennet, but Trumpism doesn't need Trump!

 https://michaelbennet.com/

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 https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/24/trump-desantis-2024-election-colorado/

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Many Trumpist candidates need to pretend to be more
centrist and rational in the general election, to appeal
to swing and independent voters.    But they were election
deniers in the primary election, to appeal to the Trumpist
base.   Who knows what any of them REALLY believe, beyond
believing that they should be elected?   What's could be
more Trumpist than that?

Mike Pence is trying to rescue them to obtain a GOP
Congress, even though it might end up a Trumpist Dixiecrat
Congress that doesn't really love him much - especially
compared to DeSantis.

 https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-campaigns-presidential-election-2020-497f7d79a175c4a7ade6fc0b8a1d2adf

There was no such thing as a Trump-Pence agenda.
There was just Trump's agenda - promoting Trump - which
Pence faithfully upheld as long as he could - far longer
than he should have.  They really had no agenda in common,
except by accident.

Consider Trump's incomparable career in civil and soon
perhaps criminal court.    It's incomparable because Pence
has nothing to compare it too -  for all his ideological
and character shortcomings, he doesn't figure in any court
actions and nobody has suggested he should be impeached
for anything.

==

In contrast, the usual suspects have long called for
impeaching Kamala Harris.

 https://www.the-sun.com/news/3531832/kamala-harris-impeached-not-visiting-afghanistan/

 https://www.the-sun.com/news/3729044/impeach-biden-harris-gop-firebrand-lauren-boebert-trolled-misspelling/

 https://nypost.com/2021/02/14/sen-graham-says-kamala-harris-could-be-impeached-if-gop-takes-over-the-house/

These are the inmates that will be running the asylum
if Pence's efforts on their behalf are successful.
Maybe they'll show their gratitude by trying to impeach
Pence too, for insufficient loyalty to Trump.

==

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Chosen by God - just like Hitler, Stalin, Putin,...

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#putin

Christian Nationalism is on a mission - to preserve
minority rule.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html

They have no use for reason, democracy, inclusiveness,
separation of church and state, or any other Enlightenment
ideals of America's founders.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html

 https://www.denverpost.com/2022/09/14/lauren-boebert-christian-nationalist-republican-colorado/

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The countermajoritarian part of the American political
system coming into direct conflict with the democratic
assumptions of the American people. And in the absence
of any kind of countervailing force to change the system,
what we get  is something much less democratic than what
we had before.

It used to be regional to the Dixiecrats.     But over the
generation from Goldwater to Gingrich, it went national
And now it's going global - Putin, Orban, etc.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html

The meaningful difference to me between Trump and DeSantis
is that DeSantis has already shown an ability to wield
the administrative state against his enemies.

Trumpism will be stronger without Trump, with bolder and
abler Trumpists - like DeSantis - and thus more dangerous.

The only actors on this stage who have the agency to do
something are Republican politicians at this point. They
are the ones who have the ability to keep these things
from spiraling out of control.  They’re making a choice
not to do it.

How DOES the devil get into these politicians' heads?

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1722010971476748

McConnell and McCarthy know better but they decided to
go with the flow.      They've been in politics so long
they've forgotten the ideals they originally brought
with them, in favor of doing whatever it takes to stay in
the game.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/opinion/the-argument-america-civil-war.html

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“If Trump won reelection in 2024, how long until
California says, ‘Why are we sending [more in taxes]
for every federal dollar we’re getting back?’ ”

The logical peaceful outcome is regional federalism -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html

The other possible outcomes are far worse.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/10/10/country-after-second-trump-term/

And it's not just Trump.    There are plenty of other
Trumpists vying to be far worse.  And plenty of fascists
around the world eager to support Trumpism, starting
with Putin.

 https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-hungary-spain-italy-3ae6083fae3f01c4cbda192e35f368db

Ukraine is already worried about what will happen if GOP
wins the House in 2022.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/10/republicans-ukraine-putin-russia-midterms/

#PS1trumpism

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/10/10/country-after-second-trump-term/

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Minority rule depends on maintaining the enthusiasm of
single-issue and fringe groups.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html

So Scott won't say anything about death threats, or racist
comments.    He can't afford to alienate any violent
insurrectionists or racists just before an election.

 https://www.axios.com/2022/10/02/rick-scott-trump-mcconnell

And Trump won't stop dropping n-word hints.   He can't
afford any enthusiasm drops among racists just before
an election.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/08/trump-n-word-rally-dangerous/

So every non-white, non-anglo, or non-evangelical should
think about what comes next if Trump's approach works
this time.   Of course, almost all of them have already
thought about that and the Trump supporters that are left
among them might just continue to close their eyes and ears
and think happy thoughts about fortifying minority rule.

#PS1trumpism

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Are we heading toward regional federalism?

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html

In order to fortify THEIR regime of minority rule -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html

Trumpists talk about a regime that they want to overthrow -
the rule of law -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/us/politics/civil-war-social-media-trump.html

to replace it with a cult of personality -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/05/marjorie-taylor-greene-political-violence-trump-jan-6/

So much for the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders!

#PS1trumpism

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The Electoral Count Reform Act would reduce the impact of
election deniers, but Congress better pass it while it can.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/06/election-deniers-republicans-count-congress/

Sorry, Cheney and Romney and all - the GOP is now the
Trumpist Dixiecrat Party and predominately election denier
- and reality denier - candidates, who deny the rule of
law and the rest of the Enlightenment ideals of America's
founders.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/06/elections-deniers-midterm-elections-2022/

The Republican Party has swallowed the purple kool-aid
and will follow the Whig Party into oblivion - sooner or
later.   To make it sooner, rational former Republicans
need to begin the hard work of defining a progressive
conservative party that is for rule of law and against
personality cults.

#PS1trumpism

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Foreign wars were a great way for the ruling class to
extract wealth and give themselves more power”

And this guy's running as a Republican?     Just who does
he think got us into Iraq?   Just who does he think is
financing his campaign?

“Impeachment, obstruction and oversight

Now he's talking like a Trumpist Dixiecrat!    Shut down
the government completely!      And let his voters survive
by their own devices.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/opinion/house-republican-elections.html

#PS1trumpism

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LOL Nothing Matters -

because

Nothing is true and everything is possible -

 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/04/nothing-is-true-and-everything-is-permitted-peter-pomerantsev-review-russia-oil-boom

“It’s one small lie, followed by a demand for a
bigger lie and a bigger concession, a bigger moral lapse,
until, you know, these folks that I admired and respected,
because I believe that they believe what they were saying,
had given themselves up so completely to Donald Trump.”

That's how the devil captures souls of politicians!

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1722010971476748

Political debate has become so degraded that it includes
every kind of offense, be it anonymous officials humoring
the former president, QAnon conspiracists exalting him or
frenzied die-hards perpetrating violence on his behalf

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/opinion/trump-big-lie-big-joke.html

#PS1trumpism

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Chosen by God - just like Hitler, Stalin, Putin,...

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#putin

Christian Nationalism is on a mission - to preserve
minority rule.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html

They have no use for reason, democracy, inclusiveness,
separation of church and state, or any other Enlightenment
ideals of America's founders.

 https://www.denverpost.com/2022/09/14/lauren-boebert-christian-nationalist-republican-colorado/

More about political scrapbook at

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html

#PS1trumpism

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Trumpism doesn't need Trump any more than Peronism needs
Perón.

When Trump refers to America First he's means the
historical stream of pseudo-populist ethno-nationalist
fascism that he is only the latest, and not the last, to
paddle in.   His many predecessors might be watching with
interest, while his many would-be successors are eagerly
waiting in the wings.

 https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/history-america-first-dream-sarah-churchwell/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/09/09/america-first-american-dream-trumpism/

In its purest form, America First really means getting
rid of everybody that isn't a white Protestant, and
putting everybody who's left under control of old rich
white Protestant male patriarchalists.        Too bad
for the six reactionary Catholics on the Supreme Court!
They're just a means to an end.    Likewise all those
Jewish, or gay, or immigrant GOP megadonors who hope that
their money will save them.   It didn't in 1933.

 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/GAB_Rally_Poster.jpg

 https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1NnnTimiRMg/WpT7itsSUWI/AAAAAAAAPZg/Stqo7W5qL3Eg7fVL1yjDGkL8EOZAi75xgCLcBGAs/s1600/American_Nazis%2B%252814%2529.jpg

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund

The good news about self-serving opportunists who lead faux
populist political movements is that they attract other
self-serving opportunists and promote them according to
loyalty, rather than competence.     We see the result of
loyal incompetence in Russia's military today in Ukraine.

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/11/europe/ukraine-russia-eastern-front/index.html

More about political scrapbook at

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html

#PS1trumpism

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Who are the RINO's?

For while the rabble, with their thumbworn creeds,
Their large professions and their little deeds, Mingle in
selfish strife; lo! Freedom weeps, Wrong rules the land,
and waiting justice sleeps!

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump

Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt are the Republicans at Mt
Rushmore.   Eisenhower and Reagan were the most admired
Republicans of the 20th century.  They have NOTHING in
common with the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP.

So who are the real RINO's - Republicans in Name Only?
Would any previous Republican leaders have won on a
dark Make America Great Again slogan, implying that the
country had somehow fallen, like the Roman Empire, from
some previous high point?

NO - their optimistic point of view was Make America
Even Greater.

God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in
self-control, Thy liberty in law!

But there's no doubt more money to be made peddling a dark
vision -

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/18/donald-trump-election-defense-fundraising-defrauded-fans
Trump

 https://apnews.com/article/michael-flynn-christian-nationalism-investigation-50fa5dcff7f99cf93409fcd6c1357bee
Flynn

 https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-new-york-manhattan-city-donald-trump-a8132ba5dc1f8818ca04747f4e04be02
Bannon

 https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-lifestyle-business-election-2020-government-and-politics-917bfd39a2e37f7e101d0492c88fc05f
Powell

 https://news.yahoo.com/alex-jones-gloats-bankruptcy-plot-021440304.html
Jones

And why not?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/07/steve-bannon-indictment-trump-wall-right-wing-grift/

There's a sucker born every minute.   And a lot of them
donate and vote GOP.

==

But give Trump full credit for showing that traditional
rule-of-law conservatism was never a mass movement, just a
conceit of major donors, think tanks, and their candidates.
The actual critical mass of Republican voters turned out to
be holding their noses while they awaited the coming of a
suitable personality to cultivate.  And in 2016 he arrived,
and that critical mass could let its inner fascist cultist
out of the closet.

==

When Biden finally quit fighting with one hand tied behind
his back, GOP leaders had their prerecorded responses
ready -

Joe Biden is the divider-in-chief and epitomizes the
current state of the Democrat Party: one of divisiveness,
disgust, and hostility towards half the country

Not half!   Only the fraction that supports the violent
insurrectionists of Jan 6!     Only the fraction that
supports stealing stop secrets, storing them improperly,
lying about it, and obstructing the investigation!
Unfortunately the GOP leadership has decided to lead that
fraction, abandoning the faith of their fathers - Lincoln,
Theodore Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Reagan.

He’s trying to stir up controversy, he’s trying to
stir up this anti-Republican sentiment right before the
election, it’s just – it’s horribly inappropriate

Even truer if you switch Democrat and Republican, and
Biden and either Trump or DeSantis!

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/politics/joe-biden-democracy-speech/index.html

More about politicalscrapbook -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html

#PS1trumpism

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Traditional conservative daydreams with a populist slant -

the evolution in conservative thinking toward greater
focus on the interests of the working class and a greater
role for government in addressing the free market’s
shortcomings

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/opinion/republican-congress-agenda.html

A genuine populist GOP Congress will be interested in
actually helping the working class?     It would be a
Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP Congress - faux populist with lots
of talk - and, just like last time it was in control,
it will legislate the priorities of the megadonors that
paid for its victory -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop

tax cuts for billionaires, deregulation for billionaires,
union busting for billionaires, and entitlement reform
to privatize Medicare and Social Security so billionaires
won't have to bail them out.     Read Rick Scott's platform
- he's in charge of regaining a GOP Senate majority -

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/23/politics/rick-scott-rescue-america-plan-gop/index.html

But a Trumpist Congress top priorities will be purifying
the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP, exacting revenge on apostates,

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump

endless investigations of Democrats  whether they find
anything or not, and making sure the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP
can't lose another election.       Note that Trump himself
is not essential to Trumpism and might not be part of
this picture.     Even if a faux populist like DeSantis or
Hawley gets elected, he'll need the support of a Trumpist
Congress to accomplish his agenda, and like Trump did,
will soon accept that it's all about the megadonors -

 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mar-a-lago-christmas-trip/

More about politicalscrapbook -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html

#PS1trumpism

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/opinion/republican-congress-agenda.html

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The essence of minority rule is to get the masses to
act against their own interests and act for the minority
rulers.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html

And you can get rich doing that by selling lies to
the gullible and hurting innocent people!   Here's the
cookbook -

 https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/06/politics/alex-jones-infowars-fringe-to-frontline/

Alex Jones and the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP cult of
personality were made by each other and for each other.
And over time, everybody at Fox looked at the Infowars
ratings and seeming impunity to consequences and wanted
to be just as profitable.    So now the fringe is the
GOP mainstream, and they call every rational rule-of-law
Republican a RINO.

#PS1trumpism

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When you disprove somebody's religion, they don't thank
you.   They kill you.

 https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0705-stephens-trump-cult-20220701-ni6zi75v2bhwbeqmx732nubk5i-story.html

Nobody ever joins a cult.  Including cults of personality.

#PS1trumpism

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Dictators obtain power by promising things they can't and
won't deliver.    By the time the people realize it, it's
too late, and they've lost their freedom and the ruling
class oligarchs have robbed them blind.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist

But there are always enablers to ghost-write their
manifestos to lend an ideological veneer to a personality
cult.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses

So here's one such reactionary American Fascist manifesto.
Putin or Hitler could have written it.      Nothing
conservative about it!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/17/national-conservative-manifesto-edmund-burke-foundation-trumpism/

#PS1trumpism

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Politicians travel in herds for safety.     If prominent
GOP leaders turn on Trump, it will happen all at once.
They'll mostly be revisionist Trumpists though.
 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist

Though most won't say anything publicly at the time -
what counts is who's privately courting major GOP donors.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/25/trump-midterms-setbacks-2024/

#PS1trumpism

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Ultra-MAGA - who benefits from that label?

Aside from Rick Scott, most GOP leaders refuse to say what
they'd do if they capture Congress.    Nothing new about
that -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop

The main claim seems to be that America WAS great under
Trump, so all MAGA means is re-elect Trump - or some other
Trumpist -  no questions asked.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/13/biden-ultra-maga/

#PS1trumpism

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Theodore Bilbo - a man who, 70 years in advance, knew more
about Trumpism than Trump does.

He filibustered to great effect -

 https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/mitch-mcconnell-wrong-filibuster-fact-racist-n1262117

And told American Negroes that their only hope was to
return to Africa.

 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2211284

Maybe Bilbo did some good things, but the only one I know
about was his appointing my father to West Point in 1943.
Graduating in 1946, my father commanded white Puerto Rican
and black Puerto Rican units, recruited the top Puerto
Rican high school graduates for the Army, and became an
early supporter of Truman's order to integrate the armed
forces -

 https://www.history.com/news/harry-truman-executive-order-9981-desegration-military-1948

Bilbo would have been against military integration, of
course, if he had lived longer.      But his legacy is
thriving - George Wallace

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/george-wallace-trump-white-anger/?itid=hp-top-table-main

and Strom Thurmond picked up his torch - and
segregationists and antisemites are still two essential
voting constituencies of Republican minority rule -

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html

Traditional GOP politicians sometimes utter pieties against
white supremacists and antisemites but they never disdain
their votes.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law

Traditionalists are now getting drowned out by Trumpists
trumpeting the Great Replacement Theory.

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/16/buffalo-massacre-great-replacement-theory-republicans

They all owe much to Bilbo.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/15/great-replacement-theory-buffalo-bilbo/

#PS1trumpism

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Trumpists have been around since 1619 under various names
- no reason to expect them to go away any time soon.
Their influence waxes and wanes.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/09/trump-trumpism-repubublican-success-popular-with-voters/

In the past, when persuadable voters tire of the populist
kleptocratic

rabble with their thumb-worn creeds, their large
professions and their little deeds

then America's better angels have gotten them under
control, but there's no reason to assume that will always
be the case.

#PS1trumpism

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Abortion restrictions don't bother rich donors who can
travel, but oppress poor women and excite the single-issue
right-to-life voters that the rich donors need to support
their candidates that will confirm reactionary judges -
that will rule the right way on issues the rich donors
care about.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html

Supreme Court justices doing the job they were appointed
to do!

 https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-07439f9fc4542f1500ab78dfd34036b1

#PS1trumpism

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The modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is not conservative in
any sense; reactionary, perhaps, but transactional above
all, with no underlying principle than kleptocratic cult
of personality, and so ultimately not much different
from Putinism.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump

Traditional conservatives are starting to notice that.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/opinion/desantis-republicans-disney.html

But Trump has proved that traditional conservatism was
never a mass movement; it's mass turned out to just be
waiting for a suitable personality to cultivate.

#PS1trumpism

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What does the Ohio senate campaign teach us about Trumpism?

For Vance, is it the core of the Trumpian project isn’t
intraparty power struggles or demagogy; it’s reconnecting
politics to ordinary people

If so then he's badly mistaken.    Trump's speciality is
the demagogue's - confuse the masses into thinking the
your interests are theirs.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump

That's how the Confederacy hung on for so long - by
convincing poor whites that they had more in common with
rich white slaveholders than with poor black slaves.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses

Each of the Republican candidates in the primary has built
his or her campaign around an implicit hypothesis about
how to appeal to Trump, and thus about what Trumpism is
in the first place.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/29/opinion/jd-vance-senate.html

If Vance thinks his appeal to Trump is ideological, he's
badly mistaken again.  Trump just hates to be a loser
and imagines that his endorsement will propel Vance to a
victory that redounds to Trump's credit.

#PS1trumpism

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If it's President DeSantis in 2025 - we might be longing
for incompetent and ignorant President Trump again.

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/30/opinions/desantis-trumpism-2-0-dantonio/index.html

Trump's lasting contribution to American politics is
proving that traditional conservatism was never a mass
movement.     The mass of Dixiecrat GOP voters were not
really traditional conservatives - they  were just waiting
for the right personality to cultivate.  Now they have a
variety of such personalities for 2024.

#PS1trumpism

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Trump's greatest achievement - proving that traditional
conservatism was never a mass movement.      Second -
proving that the GOP voter base was fertile ground for a
nativist populist kleptocratic cult of personality.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump

Most major GOP donors have come around to accept that as
the most effective avenue toward their goals.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/opinion/trump-trumpism-republican-party.html

#PS1trumpism

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Precepts of Trumpism

   Nothing is true and everything is possible, so the
   truth is what Trump says today.  Never admit anything;
   hit back twice as hard.  L'état, c'est moi.  Après moi
   le déluge.

Compare to Putinism and Revisionist Trumpism at

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump

#PS1trumpism

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How will America First play out in 2022 and 2024?

 https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-donald-trump-campaigns-foreign-policy-4625a28e59996ff16085fdf30910a449

Trump didn't deter Putin in Ukraine; just defer.    Putin
thought if Trump were re-elected, Trump would leave NATO
and Putin could just walk into Ukraine.    Putin might be
kicking himself for not making the extra effort in the
2020 election to convert Trump's 43,000 vote loss into
another 78,000 vote win.

After Trump lost and Biden committed to NATO, Putin decided
it was time to act.

#PS1trumpism

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The real question is - if Putin invaded Florida to
exterminate Biden and his administration  and install a
puppet government, would Trump or DeSantis be there at the
beach to welcome him ashore and lobby to be installed as
puppet president?

After all, Ron DeSantis is just as knowledgeable and
competent as Trump to be leader of the free world!

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance#Guerrilla_warfare

 https://msn.com/en-us/news/world/ron-desantis-says-french-would-e2-80-98probably-e2-80-99-do-nothing-if-putin-invaded-france/ar-AAUwwJi

#PS1trumpism

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Until the Republican Party examines the way Trump’s
enthusiasm for Putin and expansive nationalism led to this
moment, they can’t effectively stand with Ukraine

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/02/kim-reynolds-response-biden-true-face-gop/

Putin doesn't mind if Trumpists pretend to support Ukraine,
and stick to thoughts and prayers, as long as they don't
DO anything to support Ukraine, and as long as they oppose
Biden in every way, since he IS doing something to support
Ukraine - acting as leader of the free world, something
Trump would never do, nor Putin allow him to do.

Next installment - Biden's proposed aid package to Ukraine
is too expensive and will cause inflation.

GOP response to State of Union was to talk about culture
war issues that are not very Federal, criticize Biden's
foreign policy without offering any credible explanation of
what they would have done differently and how that would
have produced a better outcome.  And above all, not one
word about the real GOP agenda - tax cuts, deregulation,
entitlement reform, union busting, and reactionary judges -
all to benefit their billionaire major donors.

#PS1trumpism

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McConnell AND McCarthy are unclear on the concept!
They think there's no place in the Republican Party
for white supremacists but just who exactly do they
think provides the voter base for the Putinist Trumpist
Dixiecrat Cult of Personality?      The white supremacists
and anti-Semites are the ones who fought and will fight
like hell for Trump.  There's no disowning them without
disowning Trump, and then he disowns you!

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/28/politics/republican-reaction-marjorie-taylor-greene/index.html

Get real!    This is the bed you made and now you lie so
well in it.

#PS1trumpism

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Unclear on the concept!

Traditional conservatives like Romney are the morons on
the Putinist/Trumpist Dixiecrat Cult of Personality team.
He can join Liz Cheney.   They are morons for thinking
traditional conservatism was a mass movement, when what
they thought was their mass movement was really just
waiting for the right personality to cultify.

The Trumpists want to purge the remaining traditional
conservatives as quickly as possible.   White nationalists
are a much more reliable Trumpist constituency than
traditional conservatives.   They fight like hell for him!

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/27/politics/mitt-romney-gop-ukraine-russia/index.html

#PS1trumpism

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Canadian trucking crisis - it's all about influencing US
elections - and increasing ratings and making money.

 https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-ottawa-canada-539e3ad520ede8bd93e067ecd2d6a33d

What would the American donors think about foreign
countries spending money to influence our elections?
We already know the answer - Trump and his enablers
welcomed Russian interference in 2016 - and wish there
had been more in 2020.

#PS1trumpism

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Protest convenient for Trumpism!  Encourage legitimate
political discourse, cause all kinds of economic harm,
then blame Biden for inflation and unemployment!

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/13/opinions/canada-truckers-protest-rand-paul-obeidallah/index.html

Economic paralysis in the west is also convenient for
Putin as he prepares for Ukraine.

 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1492540755604213764

#PS1trumpism

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/13/opinions/canada-truckers-protest-rand-paul-obeidallah/index.html

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The anti-Trump constituency is one out of 10 Republican
voters

But what about GOP donors?     That's the important number,
and the one McConnell pays attention to.   If you've got
the donors, you can get the voters.

 https://apnews.com/article/congress-mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-elections-censures-ab60ddc94d1afb8c1162697e14aca66c

This fight was inevitable once victory seemed within reach.
Which victor gets the spoils, the Trumpists who vote
looking backward, or the traditional conservatives who
fund looking forward?

#PS1trumpism

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Unclear on the concept!

We should be focused on truly who our opponents are

this is a fight between Donald Trump and (Kinzinger and
Cheney), not the party

Donald Trump IS the party, as the RNC just ratified.

 https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-campaigns-utah-election-2020-campaign-2016-4b1019e8371129c7bb25ab2731845046

His greatest opponents are those who voted against him,
and there is no victory without vengeance on the disloyal.
That's how cult of personality works.    GOP who don't
think they are part of a cult of personality need to
be re-educated.

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/politics/kevin-mccarthy-liz-cheney-republican-party/index.html

#PS1trumpism

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The Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP Big Tent has room for QAnons
and insurrectionists but not traditional rule-of-law
conservatives.  The fantasy fringes are 100% behind Trump's
cult of personality rather than rule of law.

So will RNC excommunicate Cheney and Kinzinger?

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/politics/rnc-resolution-cheney-kinzinger/index.html

That's Trumpism in action - if you make a mistake, double
down on it.  Is McConnell next?   He acknowledged that
the Jan 6 committee is finding something the public needs
to know.     Defrocking him would really cement the cult
of personality.

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/politics/republicans-january-6-committee-miscalculations/index.html

It all will come down to who has the major donors.
If you've got the donors, you can find the votes.
McConnell doesn't show up on Fox much, but all the major
donors have worked productively with him for years.

#PS1trumpism

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What is the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican Party?

Is it the personal cult party of Donald J Trump?

Is it the cult party of pseudo-populist Trumpism - possibly
better embodied in one of his many would-be successors?
Peronism was still extremely popular even with after there
were no more Perons actually around.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/29/sundaytake-trump-polls/

Is it the ideological party of traditional conservatism?
Not likely - there's no mass movement behind it.
The mass movement behind Reagan and Bush was just the
Dixiecrat Trump base waiting for its true champion to
emerge - Gingrich?   Tea Party?   Freedom Caucus?   No -
they were waiting for Trump, who gave them permission to
say and do whatever they really felt, just as he does.
By the rule-of-law standards of traditional conservatism,
Trumpists are Republicans in Name Only, but Trump turned
the tables and put that label on rule-of-law traditional
conservatives instead.

#PS1trumpism

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Recovering Trumpist advises other recovering Trumpists.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/26/republicans-main-job-right-now-isnt-defining-themselves-its-breaking-with-trump/

But Abernathy doesn't seem to have learned a thing.
His big issue is Trump's rejection of the rule of law -
but that's been a constant of Trump's entire life, and it
has served him well so far.

Abernathy recommends several would-be Trumpist successors.
But they all strive to enable and emulate Trump, as they
try to differentiate themselves somehow.  Trumpism is
still a cult of personality, even if the successors want
to make if a cult of themselves, while retaining the Trump
base of voters and donors and reactionary media engine.
The traditional conservative GOP rule-of-law contingent
is tiny and shrinking.

#PS1trumpism

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Sounds like Tucker Carlson is making his play for the 2024
GOP nomination.      He sounds like an ultra-Trumpist -

“I really hope that Republican primary voters are
ruthless about this, and vote out any Republican who
believes Ukraine’s borders are more important than
our borders.”

Purity is strength - for Putin and for Trumpists!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/27/tucker-carlson-support-putin-republicans/

“In the Carlson-MAGA worldview, Putin is an avatar of
white Christian nationalism.”

Just like a certain German politician in 1938.

Carlson follows in the America First tradition of Charles
Lindbergh.     Lindbergh faded overnight on December 8,
1941, when the war came to America.     But when his
turn comes, Carlson will be leading the charge against
democracy.

Trump seems to be quiet right now on Ukraine - perhaps
worried about losing his hold on his base either to Carlson
on Ukraine or DeSantis on vaccines.   But if Trump does
nothing, other would-be successors will pile on.

For instance, Nikki Haley is laying it on from the opposite
direction -

 https://www.newsweek.com/nikki-haley-joe-biden-kamala-harris-resign-america-russia-ukraine-1673482

She thinks Biden should be tougher on Russia and China.
It should make for a bloody GOP primary season - starting
March 1 in Texas and May 3 in Ohio.

#PS1trumpism

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/27/tucker-carlson-support-putin-republicans/

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Is the Trump star waxing or waning?     You can see
whatever you want to see -

WANING -

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/18/politics/trump-administration-officials-against-former-boss-2022/index.html

The Anti-Trump traditional conservatives don't agree
on much.     Would they accept the suggestion to focus on
rule-of-law vs cult-of-personality?

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1581405462203967

Do they understand that Trump has proven that traditional
conservatism was never really a mass movement?     They
thought that Reagan was the messiah that GOP voters sought,
but really it was Trump cult of personality.

Polls are tricky though - in 2016 and 2020 many Trump
voters claimed they were undecided or independent when
they didn't trust the pollster.    A lot of Democratic
campaign money was thus thrown away on lost causes.

Can his would-be successors mount a successful putsch to
keep him on the sidelines?

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1582263685451478

WAXING -

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/18/politics/donald-trump-one-year-out-of-office/index.html

It's certain that he will run in 2024.    He wants to hear
that his base wants him to run, and as always he will
surround himself with  people who will tell him what he
wants to hear.

His handlers are trying to get him to focus on Biden
rather than on the 2020 election, but Trump can't let go of
disloyalty until every disloyal official has been purged.
And focusing on Biden might backfire if inflation and
supply chain issues get resolved in time.

#PS1trumpism

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Can DeSantis get away with it?   He’s Trump but a little
smarter, more disciplined and brusque.    And thus more
dangerous.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/16/us/trump-desantis.html

If DeSantis can get enough donors to help him run against
Trump, then all the other would-be Trump successors will
try as well.  After all, a self-serving opportunist at the
top attracts self-serving opportunists all the way down,
whose professions of loyalty are at best skin-deep, just
like Trump's.

Once those would-be successors start saying what they
really think about Trump and their fellow enablers, it
could get very ugly.   Exponentially ugly, exponentially
quickly, just like the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban.
You get a preview every time Trump denouces one of his
former supporters for disloyalty.

But succession in a cult of personality usually gets pretty
ugly.  The contenders would much rather honor Trump as a
blessed memory than as a living nuisance impeding their
career paths.    Each will announce himself as the one
true embodiment of true Trump though, and denounce his
competitors as self-serving opportunists.   They'll each
be right about that last part.

#PS1trumpism

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Democratic hopes in 2022 and 2024 hinge on Trump keeping
the focus on Trump!

After all, Trump endorses the Dixiecrat GOP primary
candidates least likely to win the general -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/15/us/politics/trump-rally-republicans.html

But no problem, red state legislatures will declare they
won anyway.

Still, some GOP candidates wonder how close to stick to
Trump - especially if they don't control the legislature -

 https://apnews.com/article/arizona-donald-trump-campaigns-presidential-elections-elections-be1c94516de16d480870ea8f46e0f35b

So Graham threatens McConnell if he doesn't shape up -

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/trump-lindsey-graham-mitch-mcconnell/index.html

But it's a foregone conclusion that Trump will demand that
McConnell and McCarthy be replaced with loyalists if GOP
controls Congress.

Trump's many would-be successors would much rather honor
him as a blessed memory than as a living nuisance impeding
their career plans.   Thus DeSantis is already gearing
up to attack Trump from the right - and he's very popular
with the Trump base.

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/politics/desantis-trump-covid-response/index.html

Others will pile on too if it looks like DeSantis can get
away with it.      Once all the would-be Trump successors
start saying what they really think about Trump and their
fellow enablers, it will get very ugly.   But succession
in a cult of personality always gets very ugly.

Still, the virus and inflation and Putin and Xi could
save minority rule from Trump and deliver a reactionary
Congress despite his best efforts.

#PS1trumpism

 https://apnews.com/article/arizona-donald-trump-campaigns-presidential-elections-elections-be1c94516de16d480870ea8f46e0f35b

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Did you enjoy the endless investigations of Benghazi and
Clinton's emails?

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/republican-majority-investigation-plans-midterms/index.html

Then you'll love a Trumpist Dixiecrat cult of personality
Congress - they'll be so busy investigating the same
things over and over that they won't have time to pass any
laws about tax cuts and deregulation and union busting.
That might be a good thing.    McConnell would use such
a situation as cover to pass his minority rule agenda.
But Trump's chosen successor to McConnell might be too
busy with Fox appearances praising Trump to actually
pass anything.

Trump proved he couldn't get anything past the GOP Senate
caucus, much less Congress; in four years he couldn't
propose, much less pass, an infrastructure bill or a
replacement for Obamacare.      Demolition is Trump's
special power, not construction.

McCarthy has already promised to remove Democratic leaders
from committees - for being Democrats and opposing Trump.
Whoever Trump chooses to replace McCarthy will probably
be even worse.

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/11/opinions/kevin-mccarthy-gop-threat-american-democracy-filipovic/index.html

And they'll impeach Biden and Harris for being Democrats
and opposing Trump.

Trumpist Dixiecrat minority rule is fortified everywhere
against democracy.

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/politics/joe-biden-democrats-conservative-power/index.html

They don't even have to face debates any more!

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/rnc-presidential-debates-trump/index.html

Regional federalism anybody?

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html

#PS1trumpism

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/republican-majority-investigation-plans-midterms/index.html

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Just another day in the life of a Trump.

First he outrages his base by suggesting that sometimes
it's a good idea to tell the truth -

 https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-donald-trump-election-2020-b85328cc76781d264fd84022999ccfeb

Then quickly reverts to form, saying it's a bad idea to
tell the truth -

 https://apnews.com/article/elections-voting-donald-trump-south-dakota-election-2020-420e506aa4c3f2a5af18458708d8c154

And then he refuses to answer questions about why he keeps
lying -

 https://news.yahoo.com/trump-rage-quits-npr-interview-110147973.html

Sen Rounds is hoping other GOP senators will speak up.

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/12/politics/trump-mcconnell-2022/index.html

Forget that - speak up now and get primaried, don't speak
up now and have whatever good you've done permanently
eclipsed for enabling Trump and Trumpism.        Being
silent they presumably just want to remain in office  yet
be forgotten in history.

Likewise, support McConnell and get attacked by Trump.
Blast McConnell and lose all the dark funding he channels
to GOP candidates.    But

Senate Leadership Fund and another McConnell-linked group
known as American Crossroads spent a combined $462 million
in the 2020 cycle and are expected to make significant
investments in this midterm cycle as well.

That's a lot more than Trump would spend.    CNN claims
Trump is beginning to realize the limits of his influence -

 https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/01/12/donald-trump-mitch-mcconnell-gop-influence-orr-newday-ldn-vpx.cnn

As Jesse Unruh liked to say, Money is the mother's milk
of politics.     If Trump paid more attention to how most
GOP legislators get elected, he'd know that enough money
usually gets you enough votes.

#PS1trumpism

 https://apnews.com/article/elections-voting-donald-trump-south-dakota-election-2020-420e506aa4c3f2a5af18458708d8c154

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SOME GOP senators are willing to defend a colleague from
Trump.        Not all, and maybe not even most.  They all
need to realize that whatever they feel, Trump's issue #1
has been, is, and will be the stolen 2020 election, along
with revenge on every GOP official who did not, does not,
or will not support Trump 100%.     So what are they all
going to do about it?     So far, not much. hoping the
issue will go away.    As if they do not know Trump and
his methods.     But Trump's silent enablers are just as
guilty as his noisy enablers, perhaps worse.

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/11/politics/mike-rounds-republican-defense/index.html

#PS1trumpism

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Another traditional conservative unclear on the Trumpist
Dixiecrat personality cult concept.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/opinion/voting-rights-democrats.html

The Trumpists - and that now includes most GOP - are NOT
interested in fair elections or voter confidence in fair
elections.      They are interested in defending minority
rule by never losing another election, no matter what.
Just like China, Russia, or North Korea.

#PS1trumpism

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Conspiracism as reality-TV and pro wrestling!    It's all
about fighting over the ratings and thus the money.     A
self-serving opportunist at the top attracts  self-serving
opportunists all the way down, and they each have to create
serviceable opportunities as best they can.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/03/trump-qanon-online-money-war-jan6/

The infighting reflects the diminishing financial
rewards for the merchants of right-wing disinformation,
whose battles center not on policy or doctrine but
on the treasures of online fame: viewer donations and
subscriptions; paid appearances at rallies and conferences;
and crowds of followers to buy their books and merchandise.

There might be a sucker born every minute, but most of
them don't have any disposable income, so the fight is
on to capture those that do.     Too many opportunists,
not enough suckers.

In 1934 it took a night of long knives to sort all
this out.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

How will all the would-be Trump successors navigate these
tricky currents?    They'd like the sucker votes as well
as the money, but they are up against each other as well
as against Trump, though they can't admit it.

And what about the foreign and domestic insurrectionists?
They need the suckers for cannon fodder against the
Constitution, not against each other.

Maybe there will be an epiphany on Jan 6, 2022.  How will
it be similar to or different from that of Jan 6, 2021?
Both Biden and Trump are planning major addresses.

#PS1trumpism

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/03/trump-qanon-online-money-war-jan6/

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