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thenewgreen  ·  2237 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump and the End of Smugness

Proper use of “realpolitik” aside, I think Trump is a two term president. I think his “failures” are more often seen as accomplishments in his constituents eyes and that he has “successes,” he can point to to legitimize his obsene nature. People will forgive an obscene emperor if their bellies are full, they feel safe and the emperor only bullies the “others.” Question is, are their bellies full and do they feel safe? If the answer is “yes,” then we are fawked.

The left is making the same mistake they made with Bush. They’re assuming trump is stupid and unaccomplished. He’s not. He’s a fucking genious when it comes to populism and he’s accomplishing a fuck-ton, just not a fuck ton the left cares about.

Improsoning brown babies... left is enraged and the right sees their messiah.

Two terms.

By the way, I called his presidency when we were in the first GOP debates. It’s somewhere here on Hubski.

Left needs to wake up and realize they’re not playing with some lucky fool. This guy is legit.