Election Losses Won’t Change Trump-

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11-12-2022

Thinking of Trump as a more extreme Republican
keeps resulting ‘delusional’ political analysis.

Political analysis in America would be enhanced by thinking of Donald Trump more like
Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán than an extreme Republican,
a political scientist explained on Saturday.

"The most maddening thing in US politics since 2015
has been people misreading Trump as a more extreme Republican, rather than as Palm Beach Orbán,"
wrote Brian Klass of University College London.

"He’s an authoritarian, which means analysis that puts him into the normal US framework is consistently wrong.
It’s happening now."

"The GOP had a terrible midterm election, so normally that would mean that the kingmaker former president responsible for those failures would slink away and his party would move onto a new ascendant politician.

But Trump isn’t normal.
So many pundits will again get it wrong," he explained.
____"Authoritarian political movements aren’t about policy,
but devotion to one man_____
And the feeling of social and personal identity in that group.
Trump has an authoritarian cult of personality.
MAGA diehards love him, not his policies.

An election setback won’t change that."
Klass suggested people imagine the mindset of those
in Trump's MAGA base.

"Imagine you’ve got Trump in a superman outfit riding an eagle while shooting a gun with an American flag background on your pickup truck.
Now, Blake Masters loses. Do you just abandon Trump?
C’mon. Get real," he wrote. "That’s not how it works."

"I’ve studied authoritarian movements all over the globe and
they have a very clear logic.
Trump fits it really well," Klass explained.

"Maybe Trump will lose the primary, as the midterms have shifted his political fortunes. But the idea that he’s toast because a few of his preferred candidates lost one election is delusional.
The devoted MAGA base won’t blame him, and many will turn on those who question him."

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11-12-2922

Trump threatened to pull endorsement in key race because candidate didn't call him a 'great' president.

According to a deep dive into the chaos, backbiting and infighting political leading up to the midterms election -- which was a major disappointment for conservatives -- the New York Times is reporting___
that an angry Donald Trump made a late-night call weeks before the election and threatened Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel.

His problem? One of the key candidates he endorsed in an important battleground state refused to call him a
"great president" during a debate earlier that evening.

According to the Times' report, the former president called the GOP chair at midnight on a Sunday evening
to complain about Joe Lombardo, the sheriff of Clark County,
who was running for governor.

"Someone had sent the former president clips of that evening’s debate in the Nevada governor’s race.
The Trump-endorsed Republican nominee, Joe Lombardo, the sheriff of Clark County, had declined to call Mr. Trump a 'great' president and had backed off Mr. Trump’s stolen-election lie," the report states.

"Mr. Trump fumed about withdrawing his endorsement, threatening to throw into chaos one of the nation’s most consequential swing states, a place with three competitive House races and a tossup Senate seat.
Ms. McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, pleaded with the former president. She asked him
for one hour to fix the situation."

The report adds that Trump's threat seemed to have worked.

"Mr. Lombardo soon issued a statement calling Mr. Trump a 'great president,'" the report states before adding.
"The crisis was averted. The next week, when Mr. Trump held a Nevada rally, Mr. Lombardo joined the chorus singing his praises onstage."

At that rally, Lombardo went even further exhorting
the crowd, "The greatest president, right?”

Lombardo did win the Nevada governor's race with his election confirmed on Friday night.

Subject: Re: Election Losses Won’t Change Trump- Sat Nov 12, 2022 4:29 pm

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11-10-2022

Trump has been privately singing the-
“let’s crack down on our free, independent press” refrain for some time now.

This year, as Trump has privately strategized about what a second term, potentially starting in 2025, could look like, he’s begun occasionally soliciting ideas from conservative allies for how the U.S. government and Justice Department could go about turning his desires — f
or brutally imprisoning significant numbers of reporters into reality.

Several months ago, the former president briefly asked
a small gathering of his allies and at least one of his attorneys about what would have to be done to make that authoritarian, First Amendment-shredding vision a norm, according to a source who was present.

“He said other countries do it — the implication being: Well, why not here?” the source recounts.

(((Good God, that’s horrifying. And yet entirely expected. In prison Reporters..
trump has openly fantasized about the brutal assaults of journalists, even as journalists themselves stand by looking cow-eyed and mute.
those “other countries” share a couple of key traits__ They're authoritarian hellscapes run by unaccountable, human rights-violating dictators )))

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