re: #17 goddamnedfrank

Re: Trump’s “strategy” I think Adam Gopnik said it best here:

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This is the habit of willfully substituting, as a motive for Trump’s latest action, a conventional political or geostrategic ambition, rather than recognizing the action as the daily spasm of narcissistic gratification and episodic vanity that it truly is.

As for it “working” maybe your theory is correct - ha ha - but I wasn’t thinking of anything that complicated. He just continues to again and again paper over old outrages with new outrages, so that we’re basically forced to forget about, and move on from, the prior outrages. Obviously the fact that this has worked for him is not in any way a credit to him, but rather a harsh indictment of (a nontrivial portion of) the American public.