re: #382 Anymouse 🌹

Trump is necessary to appease the populist, paranoid part of the base who don’t actually have policy goals, and need to be constantly stimulated with outrage and trolling.

After cultivating this trend for decades, they’re now dependent on this group, and Trump is better at manipulating the former than they are. Trump has one card to play—blow up the GOP coalition—but it’s a big one.

Not that they’re actually winning by maintaining this arrangement. The “sensible” plutocrat types are being marginalized in favor of more aggressive hucksterism and even the occasional sincere reactionary demagogue.