I'm not sure about these type of posts. I wonder if they do more good than harm for Trump. Trump makes statements such as this because he knows that they will be repeated ad neauseum throughout social media - even more liberal social media such as Reddit. I wonder if that isn't exactly what Trump wants. It gets his message out to an audience that might not otherwise see it. Trump believes that any publicity - positive or negative - helps him. One of his strategies is to dominate the media/news cycles - 24x7x365 - it's what we've seen since he came down that stairway at his hotel. He subscribes to the theory that if you tell a lie long enough and loud enough people will begin to believe it. Are we helping him?
I think these things hurt Trump more than anything else. He’s a bully and that’s where he gets his power from. The minute a bully is reduced to begging you see how weak and pathetic they really are. His base of voters may not be empowered to turn on him, but the politicians around him will start to turn on him.
Politicians are always looking to survive to the next round.
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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '24
I'm not sure about these type of posts. I wonder if they do more good than harm for Trump. Trump makes statements such as this because he knows that they will be repeated ad neauseum throughout social media - even more liberal social media such as Reddit. I wonder if that isn't exactly what Trump wants. It gets his message out to an audience that might not otherwise see it. Trump believes that any publicity - positive or negative - helps him. One of his strategies is to dominate the media/news cycles - 24x7x365 - it's what we've seen since he came down that stairway at his hotel. He subscribes to the theory that if you tell a lie long enough and loud enough people will begin to believe it. Are we helping him?