(September 18, 2023 at 3:22 am)arewethereyet Wrote:(September 18, 2023 at 12:49 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: you think he is madder than the republicans and hence there could be a point when they realize he is mad. i think that is a misreading of the dynamics. large portion of republicans are functionally as mad as he is and many wish they themselves had the courage to be be madder than trump, and are only watching how well trump succeeds and what fate befall him to decide whether to risk being madder than trump.
people need to understand american democracy is not imperiled by merely an aberrant madman. it is imperiled by the fact that half, perhaps the majority, of the voting population care only about getting what they want and not at all about the meaning or institution or democracy.
They found their leader in Trump. He says the quiet stuff out loud and his followers can't get enough of it.
I think they found their front man, not their leader. others amongst them, both candidate wannabes and those who organize and finance behind the scene, are using trump as a sort of guinea pig to guage how far they can take trumpian tactics, what kind of blow back there will be, how to mitigate the consequences of blow back, and what sort of legal potful can either be powered through or avoided.
trump remains the apparent leader because he remains useful as the both a tool and a guinea pig