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========== Since when was it a crime for a politician or candidate to lie? It's practically a prerequisite for Trumpism - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/post-interviews-trump-on-santos-satire/ which Santos proudly embraces - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/07/republican-house-candidates-2022-crazy/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/new-members-of-congress/ https://georgeforny.com/former-trump-campaign-staffer-joins-santos-campaign/ https://dccc.org/the-case-against-george-santos/ Trump did not endorse Santos - Trump only endorsed candidates he thought were winners! https://ballotpedia.org/Endorsements_by_Donald_Trump#2022 But maybe Trump should have endorsed him - Santos is riding the Trumpist wave of the future! A vote for Santos is a vote for Trumpism. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/george-santos-is-not-an-aberration-hes-the-poster-child-for-the-maga-gop-opinion/ar-AA15MsYA Now the authorities in Congress and New York might be taking a closer look - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-republicans-speak-against-george-santos-lies-call-investigation https://apnews.com/article/Republican-George-Santos-Investigation-New-York-d783ca654dc08aba892f694ef2584af7 But McCarthy can't say anything because he can't afford to lose a single vote - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/santos-scandal-crashes-into-mccarthy-speakership-battle/ar-AA15KQXN Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome Better sooner than later! https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mcconnell-complains-candidate-quality-investing-senate-races-gop-contenders == About political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 150 hideall 1 impact 19481 impactrate 2 negative 1 posted 2022-12-29 ratio 3 react 1694 reactrate 0 shares 5 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1538 title Since when was it a crime for a politician or candidate topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 115 audclicks 1538 commentsimpress 150 epoch Lifetime hideallclicksusers 1 ID 1840376319640212 impress 8706 matchedlinkclicks 237 matchedotherclicks 1301 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/29/2022 10:12" rcs 212 reach 5699 reactions 57 sharesimpress 5 title "NY Rep.-elect Santos investigated for lying about his past" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1840376319640212 ========== Dixiecrat Trumpists remind us of all the taxpayer money that could have been saved if only - Washington had negotiated with the British instead of wintering at Valley Forge Lincoln had negotiated with the Confederacy instead of resisting FDR had negotiated with Hitler and Tojo instead of becoming the arsenal of democracy Harry Truman had negotiated with Stalin instead of airlifting to Berlin Then, as now, negotiate is Putinese for unconditional surrender, or unconditional acceptance of the aggressor's demands, or at best, a cease-fire until the aggressor can resume the war. As in Neville Chamberlain at Munich. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/conservative-rips-apart-maga-claims-that-ukraine-s-president-is-fighting-a-war-on-christianity/ar-AA15Bs9r But now, as then, it's always cheaper to stop Russian aggression early and far away, than when it's in Alaska. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/us-elections-government/ny-maga-republicans-slam-ukraine-president-zelenskyy-20221221-gaem32revnd4vgom6jis74sncq-story.html = About political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 204 impact 42410 impactrate 4 negative 0 posted 2022-12-23 ratio 2 react 3448 reactrate 0 shares 13 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3231 title Dixiecrat Trumpists remind us of all the taxpayer money topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 123 audclicks 3231 commentsimpress 204 epoch Lifetime ID 1835445143466663 impress 11800 matchedlinkclicks 726 matchedotherclicks 2505 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/23/2022 07:12" rcs 313 reach 8271 reactions 96 sharesimpress 13 title "MAGA Republicans like MTG, Donald Trump Jr. slam Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as ‘welfare queen’ amid U.S. visit" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1835445143466663 ========== DeSantis already sees Trump in his rear-view mirror. https://cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/desantis-covid-vaccine-manufacturers/index.html Florida Trumpists agree. But he's missing a good bet for publicity about immigration - https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1774625046215340 What about the rest of the country? A bold and competent Trump replacement - that's something to worry about! == About political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 67 hideall 1 impact 9499 impactrate 1 negative 1 posted 2022-12-14 ratio 2 react 2021 reactrate 0 shares 8 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1945 title DeSantis already sees Trump in his rear-view mirror. topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 47 audclicks 1945 commentsimpress 67 epoch Lifetime hideallclicksusers 1 ID 1827863464224831 impress 6422 matchedlinkclicks 524 matchedotherclicks 1421 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/14/2022 18:12" rcs 169 reach 4588 reactions 94 sharesimpress 8 title "DeSantis targets Covid vaccine manufacturers and CDC in latest anti-vaccine moves | CNN Politics" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1827863464224831 ========== “Kanye. Elon. Trump.” - House Judiciary GOP https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/01/kanye-west-alex-jones-hilter-interview/ Ever seen the Stoppard play Leopoldstadt? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldstadt_(play) If you're a Jewish megadonor for Trump or Trumpism, maybe you should. https://msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michelle-goldberg-antisemitism-is-going-mainstream-trumps-helping/ar-AA14IqNS https://gocomics.com/jackohman/2022/11/30 == About political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== impact 465 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-12-02 ratio 1 react 150 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 150 title “Kanye. Elon. Trump.” - House Judiciary GOP topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 31 audclicks 150 epoch Lifetime ID 1817357891942055 impress 216 matchedlinkclicks 131 matchedotherclicks 19 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/02/2022 05:12" rcs 3 reach 171 reactions 3 title "Jack Ohman by Jack Ohman for November 30, 2022 | GoComics.com" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1817357891942055 ========== Chosen by God! Hitler was chosen by God to save Germany and the white race! https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/british-church-worshipped-hitler Putin was chosen by God to save Russia! https://www.christianpost.com/news/vladimir-putin-sent-by-god.html Trump was chosen by God to save America! https://www.salon.com/2019/08/22/evangelicals-told-trump-he-was-chosen-by-god-now-he-says-it-himself/ DeSantis was chosen by God to save America! https://ifapray.org/blog/desantis-says-put-on-the-full-armor-of-god/ There is no Divine Right of Kings - or presidents - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_kings Kings were not chosen by God's will to advance God's goals for God's people. Kings usually obtained power by choosing of their own free will to murder their rivals, in order to advance their own goals for themselves and their descendants. Likewise, Donald Trump was chosen by Donald Trump's free will to advance Donald Trump's goals for Donald Trump. He obtained power by choosing of his own free will to defeat his rivals - exploiting the GOP's reluctance to embrace ranked-choice voting. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential Trump intends to do it again. More at - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump More about political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism https://www.salon.com/2019/08/22/evangelicals-told-trump-he-was-chosen-by-god-now-he-says-it-himself/ ===== comments 82 impact 17567 impactrate 2 negative 0 posted 2022-11-28 ratio 2 react 1195 reactrate 0 shares 6 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1107 title Chosen by God! topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 147 audclicks 1107 commentsimpress 82 epoch Lifetime ID 1814742722203572 impress 3846 matchedlinkclicks 515 matchedotherclicks 592 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/28/2022 19:11" rcs 166 reach 2831 reactions 78 sharesimpress 6 title "Evangelicals told Trump he was chosen by God. Now he says it himself" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1814742722203572 ========== Trump won the hearts of a big - but no longer growing - minority of voters by setting the example of being bad and giving those voters permission to be bad too - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency No need to know about, or even pretend to care about, much less pursue, the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html “Here you come again, just when I’ve begun to get myself together” https://triblive.com/opinion/leonard-pitts-jr-here-comes-trump-again/ But Trumpism can thrive without Trump! == More about political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 20 impact 5996 impactrate 1 negative 0 posted 2022-11-23 ratio 3 react 759 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 737 title Trump won the hearts of a big - but no longer growing - topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 79 audclicks 737 commentsimpress 20 epoch Lifetime ID 1810951625916015 impress 3931 matchedlinkclicks 115 matchedotherclicks 622 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/23/2022 18:11" rcs 30 reach 2418 reactions 8 sharesimpress 2 title "Leonard Pitts Jr.: Here comes Trump again" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1810951625916015 ========== check out the scoreboard https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/21/trump-republicans-elections/ https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/politics/paul-ryan-never-again-trump-2024/index.html If they can convince the megadonors not to make another losing bet, they can convince the voters. Democrats are hoping to run against Trump - https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/politics/joe-biden-reelection-2024-trump-republican/index.html And we might rue the day that Trump lost out - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/21/desantis-republican-free-speech-trump/ DeSantis is smarter, bolder, more vigorous, more strategic, and has more momentum and less baggage. He dares to go where Trump fears to tread - so much the worse for America! == More about political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/politics/paul-ryan-never-again-trump-2024/index.html ===== comments 4 impact 6607 impactrate 1 negative 0 posted 2022-11-21 ratio 2 react 847 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 842 title check out the scoreboard topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 78 audclicks 842 commentsimpress 4 epoch Lifetime ID 1809487959395715 impress 4007 matchedlinkclicks 384 matchedotherclicks 458 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/21/2022 20:11" rcs 21 reach 2494 reactions 16 sharesimpress 1 title "Paul Ryan invents a new category of anti-Trumpism | CNN Politics" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1809487959395715 ========== The GOP House agenda - https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/18/congress-republicans-investigations-hunter-biden/ It boils down to getting on Fox, early and often. Just like Benghazi. They don't need to actually find anything, just pretend that they are ABOUT to find some confirmation of something they read on the internet. Then they are sure they'll be rewarded with control of the White House and Congress in 2024. Either by embracing Trump and Trumpism more, or by embracing Trumpism and somebody else more, or by embracing Trumpism much less enthusiastically and yet somebody else more - they don't seem to be able to agree on the ultimate goal. But investigations are sure to help! == More on political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 17 impact 5286 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-11-20 ratio 3 react 472 reactrate 0 shares 4 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 451 title The GOP House agenda - topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 112 audclicks 451 commentsimpress 17 epoch Lifetime ID 1808550712822773 impress 3648 matchedlinkclicks 102 matchedotherclicks 349 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/20/2022 13:11" rcs 37 reach 1782 reactions 16 sharesimpress 4 title "Opinion | Welcome to the Congress of endless investigations" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1808550712822773 ========== American politics is defined nowadays by primaries, money, social media and celebrity Although we're stuck with propaganda media and celebrity, you might think America could do something about the primaries https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential - and the unlimited dark campaign money https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations - But they are essential pillars of minority rule and so can't be undone - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html though perhaps their effects can be limited by regional federalism - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html == Republican officials seem to be hoping that their voters will do their dirty work for them and deliver them from Trump — reversing the usual roles of leaders and followers https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/17/republican-leaders-must-purge-trump-extremism/ And it's not just Trump - it's Trumpism - a Trumpist Dixiecrat cult of personality can thrive without Trump! Trump won the hearts of a big - but no longer growing - minority of voters by setting the example of being bad and giving those voters permission to be bad too - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency No need to know about, or even pretend to care about, much less pursue, the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html == More about political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 21 impact 12528 impactrate 1 negative 0 posted 2022-11-20 ratio 2 react 720 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 697 title American politics is defined nowadays by primaries, money, topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 174 audclicks 697 commentsimpress 21 epoch Lifetime ID 1808466852831159 impress 3191 matchedlinkclicks 276 matchedotherclicks 421 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/20/2022 11:11" rcs 50 reach 1862 reactions 27 sharesimpress 2 title "Opinion | Trump won’t magically disappear. Republicans will have to purge him." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1808466852831159 ========== Surely Josh Hawley, JD Yale Law, must have learned SOMEWHERE that working people don't pay for the GOP, megadonors do - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop And if you've got the megadonors, you can get the votes. Usually! A reborn Republican Party must look very different. It must offer good jobs and good lives, not just higher stock prices for Wall Street. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/18/josh-hawley-oped-republican-party-working-people/ Now if he meant that the GOP should just TALK about good jobs and good lives, just like always, then we'd understand. But GOP doesn't need to change anything to talk the talk. If he really meant improving the lives of working people, he'd mean bipartisan initiatives with Democrats. But that wouldn't be very Trumpist, would it! == More about political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 3 impact 3799 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-11-18 ratio 0 react 314 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 310 title Surely Josh Hawley, JD Yale Law, must have learned topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 121 audclicks 310 commentsimpress 3 epoch Lifetime ID 1807027849641726 impress 472 matchedlinkclicks 214 matchedotherclicks 96 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/18/2022 16:11" rcs 9 reach 248 reactions 5 sharesimpress 1 title "Opinion | The GOP is dead. A new GOP must listen to working people." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1807027849641726 ========== GOP Plan A: convince voters that Democratic investigations are just political witch-hunts, and Republicans are not. GOP Plan B: convince voters by example that ALL investigations are just political witch-hunts. It's just another variation on the everybody's equally corrupt Trumpist theme - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump Either way, they win. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/18/marjorie-taylor-greene-house-gop-investigations-maga-trump/ == More about political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 41 hideall 1 impact 4823 impactrate 0 negative 1 posted 2022-11-18 ratio 1 react 910 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 868 title GOP Plan A: convince voters that Democratic investigations topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 53 audclicks 868 commentsimpress 41 epoch Lifetime hideallclicksusers 1 ID 1807022976308880 impress 2594 matchedlinkclicks 220 matchedotherclicks 648 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/18/2022 15:11" rcs 62 reach 1612 reactions 21 title "Opinion | How Marjorie Taylor Greene’s MAGA House will boost Trump" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1807022976308880 ========== By indicating that he only had one issue with Trump - the 2020 election - Pence implies that he had no issue with the rest of the Trump personality cult. So why he would go along with it for four years, and then object at its logical culmination on Jan 6, doesn't quite add up. Especially if he isn't upset enough about it to testify to the Jan 6 committee. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/mike-pence-book-trump-january-6/index.html It's good to remember your principles at the final hour, but more efficient to remember them much sooner. And in a personality cult, there is no Trump-Pence Agenda - just a Trump Agenda. == More on political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 30 impact 8173 impactrate 1 negative 0 posted 2022-11-16 ratio 1 react 743 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 712 title By indicating that he only had one issue with Trump - topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 110 audclicks 712 commentsimpress 30 epoch Lifetime ID 1805565433121301 impress 2319 matchedlinkclicks 183 matchedotherclicks 529 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/16/2022 21:11" rcs 53 reach 1406 reactions 22 sharesimpress 1 title "Pence details fracture with Trump over his refusal to overturn 2020 election in new book | CNN Politics" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1805565433121301 ========== Many voiced disbelief that the two men would ever run against each other because they seem so closely aligned Unclear on the concept of cult of personality! The bitterness of the contest is INVERSELY proportional to the similarity of the contestants - as memorably brought to life by Python - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS-0Az7dgRY And there's never room for TWO megalomaniacs - https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-ron-desantis-donald-trump-c8a3a7e58d35061f8662ead819861005 Succession in a cult of personality is usually rather bitter - and hazardous for everybody within range of collateral damage. His rivals agree that Trumpism can get along fine without Trump - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist == More about political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 40 impact 14288 impactrate 1 negative 0 posted 2022-11-13 ratio 2 react 1473 reactrate 0 shares 4 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1429 title Many voiced disbelief that the two men would ever run topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 97 audclicks 1429 commentsimpress 40 epoch Lifetime ID 1802766766734501 impress 5153 matchedlinkclicks 275 matchedotherclicks 1154 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/13/2022 11:11" rcs 82 reach 3216 reactions 38 sharesimpress 4 title "Trump vs. DeSantis: A simmering rivalry bursts into view" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1802766766734501 ========== Some Coloradans are getting tired of Boebert's antics. https://cnn.com/2022/11/11/opinions/colorado-race-boebert-frisch-lenti/index.html She might win anyway - barely. This time. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-11-12 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Some Coloradans are getting tired of Boebert's antics. topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 17 epoch Lifetime ID 1801762363501608 impress 14 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/12/2022 05:11" reach 12 title "Opinion: Lauren Boebert's unexpectedly tight race shows the waning power of the MAGA brand | CNN" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1801762363501608 ========== Damn the election torpedoes! Full speed ahead for Trump! https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3731337-jason-miller-trump-wants-people-to-know-that-of-course-hes-running-in-2024/ Maybe Trump feels it's more important to get a head start against any coming indictments, than to support Herschel Walker. And he let his requirements on McCarthy be known - https://politicalwire.com/2022/11/11/trump-sets-his-conditions-for-kevin-mccarthy/ In particular, that might mean no praise for DeSantis and no bipartisanship with Biden. But what if the right move would be to kiss DeSantis' ring rather than Trump's? Some in McCarthy's caucus might think the wind is blowing that way - https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3727625-texas-gop-chairman-desantis-offers-winning-brand-for-party/ And some others in McCarthy's caucus are already against him no matter what - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/group-staffed-by-ex-trump-officials-working-to-block-mccarthys-speaker-bid As if McCarthy were responsible for the Roe v Wade reversal or for Trump's making himself the biggest issue in the election. And the tossups NV-1,3,4 were just called for Democrats. At this point, it sounds like McCarthy's best bet is to hope to have one LESS than a majority. Then nobody will bother trying to replace him as (minority) leader. Or McCarthy just might be better off back home in Bakersfield. Just ask Ryan or Boehner. McCarthy's no Henry Clay or Sam Rayburn. And some are talking that way about McConnell too, though he was the one who warned them what would happen - https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2022/11/11/the-new-gop-leadership-litmus-tests-00066526?nname=playbook-pm&nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&nrid=0000014e-f0ed-dd93-ad7f-f8edad790000&nlid=964328 McConnell's no LBJ but he's more adept than McCarthy. What would Jesus do? Just ask DeSantis! Everybody else will - sooner or later. Or else! https://twitter.com/CaseyDeSantis/status/1588539069243473924 Transitions from one cult of personality to another are always fraught with collateral damage for everybody within range. More about political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism https://politicalwire.com/2022/11/11/trump-sets-his-conditions-for-kevin-mccarthy/ ===== comments 3 impact 18476 impactrate 2 negative 0 posted 2022-11-11 ratio 2 react 742 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 738 title Damn the election torpedoes! Full speed ahead for Trump! topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 249 audclicks 738 commentsimpress 3 epoch Lifetime ID 1801337160210795 impress 4930 matchedlinkclicks 217 matchedotherclicks 521 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/11/2022 15:11" rcs 12 reach 2046 reactions 8 sharesimpress 1 title "Trump Sets His Conditions for Kevin McCarthy" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1801337160210795 ========== DeSantis was sent by God https://nytimes.com/2022/11/09/opinion/ron-desantis-god-complex.html and so God prepared the perfect political storm to make him look good - https://nytimes.com/2022/11/09/opinion/ron-desantis-midterms.html so DeSantis and Trumpism would become one and the same. It was God, wasn't it? By their fruits shall ye know them! #PS1trumpism ===== impact 8 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-11-10 ratio 7 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title DeSantis was sent by God topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 42 audclicks 2 epoch Lifetime ID 1800513566959821 impress 16 matchedlinkclicks 2 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/10/2022 16:11" reach 14 title "Opinion | Did Ron DeSantis Just Become the 2024 Republican Front-Runner?" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1800513566959821 ========== 2022 midterm election results: DeSantis +1 Biden 0 Pelosi 0 Schumer 0 Trumpism 0 Trump -1 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/08/takeaways-midterms-election-2022/ Fox has already declared for DeSantis - https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/media/fox-news-desantis-celebration/index.html https://www.foxnews.com/politics/conservative-twitter-ready-crown-desantis-head-party-decisive-election-win and DeSantis is full steam ahead - https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/politics/ron-desantis-2024-president-trump-florida/index.html Trump had a very bad night - https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/politics/gop-midterms-trump-2024/index.html So who's to blame? Not Trump! https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/politics/donald-trump-2022-election-midterms/index.html Maybe Melania? https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/09/donald-trump-blames-melania-for-advising-him-to-back-dr-oz-reports-say/ Georgia needs to be the focus of every Republican in the country right now” https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-2024-republicans-midterms-43d088c71c2984a66fdbd5c2296f48fc You'd think that an experienced Trumpist like Jason Miller would know better by now - clearly TRUMP needs to be the focus of every Republican in the country right now, same as always. But then again, every experienced Trumpist is an agile self-serving opportunist, just like Trump, who'll jump ship the instant he spots a better opportunity. == The future looks bad for democracy - won a battle, lost a war? DeSantis is smarter and bolder and more strategic than Trump, but lacks his reality-TV instincts. He won't swerve off course to settle minor scores. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/09/desantis-trump-2024-presidential-election/ Who says Trumpism needs Trump? == More about political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 72 hide 1 impact 41085 impactrate 3 negative 1 posted 2022-11-09 ratio 2 react 2475 reactrate 0 shares 4 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2398 title 2022 midterm election results: topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 166 audclicks 2398 commentsimpress 72 epoch Lifetime hideclicksusers 1 ID 1799725180371993 impress 11570 matchedlinkclicks 1051 matchedotherclicks 1347 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/09/2022 16:11" rcs 119 reach 6903 reactions 43 sharesimpress 4 title "One likely 2024 GOP contender triumphed on election night. It wasn’t Donald Trump." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1799725180371993 ========== Look out, Trump, DeSantis, not to mention Pence, Pompeo, Cruz, Hawley - Musk has more money AND a bigger, more rabid fan base! But the good news is he has Palin's attention span. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/03/meet-the-silicon-valley-dad-who-has-elon-musks-ear-his-gushing-tweets-prove-it/ #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-11-04 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Look out, Trump, DeSantis, not to mention Pence, Pompeo, topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 34 epoch Lifetime ID 1795657060778805 impress 18 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/04/2022 08:11" reach 17 title "Meet the Silicon Valley dad who has Elon Musk’s ear. His gushing tweets prove it" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1795657060778805 ========== “Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I’m elected governor” https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/republicans-rig-elections-never-lose/ It's been the Trumpist plan all along! A strong ruler like Putin or Xi never loses an election! Any rule-of-law Republicans who are silent are enablers. #PS1trumpism ===== comments 1 impact 8 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-11-03 ratio 15 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title “Republicans will never lose another election in topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 39 audclicks 1 commentsimpress 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1795131384164706 impress 32 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/03/2022 16:11" rcs 1 reach 30 title "These Republicans Have a Plan: Rig Things So They “Never Lose Another Election”" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1795131384164706 ========== Styles of GOP response to Trumpist-inspired political violence - Old style - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/31/pelosi-attack-gop-strategist-condemn/ Future style - https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/donald-trump-jr-paul-pelosi-reaction/index.html Current style - https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/donald-trump-paul-pelosi-reaction/index.html Never let the facts get in the way of a good fantasy! Could Trumpists just be shameless self-serving opportunists? Just raising the question! #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-11-01 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Styles of GOP response to Trumpist-inspired political topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 42 epoch Lifetime ID 1793823304295514 impress 19 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/01/2022 22:11" reach 17 title "Donald Trump joins the Paul Pelosi conspiracy caucus | CNN Politics" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1793823304295514 ========== Who's going to be the first Trumpist who qualifies his condolences with - - blaming Nancy Pelosi for the attack - classifying the attacker as a patriot and political prisoner like the Jan 6 violent insurrectionists https://apnews.com/article/california-san-francisco-nancy-pelosi-government-and-politics-paul-ba57573b581adbc12d2741f801934fc8 - adding an appeal for legal defense and campaign funds == Other fantasies started less than nine hours after the attack - https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/pelosi-attack-right-wing-conspiracy-theories-invs/index.html Don Jr was not the last to join in - it's just his cup of tea - https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/donald-trump-jr-paul-pelosi-reaction/index.html Musk might have started down that path and then thought better, or was restrained. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/30/elon-musk-tweets-unfounded-claims-about-paul-pelosi-attack/ But he unleashed quite a storm from the usual suspects - https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-elon-musk-technology-misinformation-nancy-pelosi-42c1a39e8df739065abd70c400240d84 In any case, all who qualify and do NOT recant can find a home on the new Twitter. == More about political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 1 impact 38 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-10-30 ratio 8 react 3 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Who's going to be the first Trumpist who qualifies his topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 125 audclicks 2 commentsimpress 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1792153081129203 impress 28 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/30/2022 19:10" rcs 1 reach 25 title "Elon Musk tweets — then deletes — unfounded claims about Paul Pelosi attack" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1792153081129203 ========== They are only fulfilling the wishes of their leader Trump! Even though they know he won't do anything for them in return. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-san-francisco-nancy-pelosi-congress-government-and-politics-b8a3fb8b3e6f491fcfb16e155b877427 It takes much courage to serve in Congress. That's exactly what the megadonors supporting minority rule want - to intimidate as many potential opposition candidates as possible. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 5 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-10-29 ratio 18 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title They are only fulfilling the wishes of their leader topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 50 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1791518531192658 impress 18 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/29/2022 23:10" reach 18 title "Paul Pelosi attack highlights rising threats to lawmakers" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1791518531192658 ========== Trump and DeSantis and - O'Dea? https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/24/trump-desantis-2024-election-colorado/ Distancing himself from Trump means being able to run against both Trump and Biden, which Bennet can’t do. Colorado needs Bennet, but Trumpism doesn't need Trump! https://michaelbennet.com/ More about political scrapbook at https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/24/trump-desantis-2024-election-colorado/ ===== comments 113 impact 7760 impactrate 1 negative 0 posted 2022-10-25 ratio 2 react 2042 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1927 title Trump and DeSantis and - O'Dea? topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 38 audclicks 1927 commentsimpress 113 epoch Lifetime ID 1787612238249954 impress 7175 matchedlinkclicks 616 matchedotherclicks 1311 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/25/2022 05:10" rcs 143 reach 4734 reactions 28 sharesimpress 2 title "Analysis | Has the Trump-DeSantis feud finally broken the surface?" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1787612238249954 ========== Many Trumpist candidates need to pretend to be more centrist and rational in the general election, to appeal to swing and independent voters. But they were election deniers in the primary election, to appeal to the Trumpist base. Who knows what any of them REALLY believe, beyond believing that they should be elected? What's could be more Trumpist than that? Mike Pence is trying to rescue them to obtain a GOP Congress, even though it might end up a Trumpist Dixiecrat Congress that doesn't really love him much - especially compared to DeSantis. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-campaigns-presidential-election-2020-497f7d79a175c4a7ade6fc0b8a1d2adf There was no such thing as a Trump-Pence agenda. There was just Trump's agenda - promoting Trump - which Pence faithfully upheld as long as he could - far longer than he should have. They really had no agenda in common, except by accident. Consider Trump's incomparable career in civil and soon perhaps criminal court. It's incomparable because Pence has nothing to compare it too - for all his ideological and character shortcomings, he doesn't figure in any court actions and nobody has suggested he should be impeached for anything. == In contrast, the usual suspects have long called for impeaching Kamala Harris. https://www.the-sun.com/news/3531832/kamala-harris-impeached-not-visiting-afghanistan/ https://www.the-sun.com/news/3729044/impeach-biden-harris-gop-firebrand-lauren-boebert-trolled-misspelling/ https://nypost.com/2021/02/14/sen-graham-says-kamala-harris-could-be-impeached-if-gop-takes-over-the-house/ These are the inmates that will be running the asylum if Pence's efforts on their behalf are successful. Maybe they'll show their gratitude by trying to impeach Pence too, for insufficient loyalty to Trump. == More about political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-campaigns-presidential-election-2020-497f7d79a175c4a7ade6fc0b8a1d2adf ===== comments 34 impact 21804 impactrate 2 negative 0 posted 2022-10-21 ratio 3 react 920 reactrate 0 shares 4 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 882 title Many Trumpist candidates need to pretend to be more topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 237 audclicks 882 commentsimpress 34 epoch Lifetime ID 1784453631899148 impress 4731 matchedlinkclicks 151 matchedotherclicks 731 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/21/2022 10:10" rcs 79 reach 3482 reactions 41 sharesimpress 4 title "GOP hopefuls turn to Pence to broaden appeal before election" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1784453631899148 ========== Chosen by God - just like Hitler, Stalin, Putin,... https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#putin Christian Nationalism is on a mission - to preserve minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html They have no use for reason, democracy, inclusiveness, separation of church and state, or any other Enlightenment ideals of America's founders. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html https://www.denverpost.com/2022/09/14/lauren-boebert-christian-nationalist-republican-colorado/ == More about political scrapbook at https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 366 hide 1 impact 22248 impactrate 2 negative 1 posted 2022-10-20 ratio 2 react 4635 reactrate 0 shares 42 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 4226 title Chosen by God - just like Hitler, Stalin, Putin,... topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 48 audclicks 4226 commentsimpress 366 epoch Lifetime hideclicksusers 1 ID 1783504508660727 impress 13907 matchedlinkclicks 1652 matchedotherclicks 2574 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/20/2022 07:10" rcs 665 reach 10806 reactions 257 sharesimpress 42 title "Lauren Boebert is part of a dangerous religious movement that threatens democracy, experts say" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1783504508660727 ========== The countermajoritarian part of the American political system coming into direct conflict with the democratic assumptions of the American people. And in the absence of any kind of countervailing force to change the system, what we get is something much less democratic than what we had before. It used to be regional to the Dixiecrats. But over the generation from Goldwater to Gingrich, it went national And now it's going global - Putin, Orban, etc. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html The meaningful difference to me between Trump and DeSantis is that DeSantis has already shown an ability to wield the administrative state against his enemies. Trumpism will be stronger without Trump, with bolder and abler Trumpists - like DeSantis - and thus more dangerous. The only actors on this stage who have the agency to do something are Republican politicians at this point. They are the ones who have the ability to keep these things from spiraling out of control. They’re making a choice not to do it. How DOES the devil get into these politicians' heads? https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1722010971476748 McConnell and McCarthy know better but they decided to go with the flow. They've been in politics so long they've forgotten the ideals they originally brought with them, in favor of doing whatever it takes to stay in the game. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/opinion/the-argument-america-civil-war.html More about political scrapbook at https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 64 hide 1 impact 22912 impactrate 2 negative 1 posted 2022-10-12 ratio 3 react 1051 reactrate 0 shares 19 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 967 title The countermajoritarian part of the American political topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 218 audclicks 967 commentsimpress 64 epoch Lifetime hideclicksusers 1 ID 1777356932608818 impress 6859 matchedlinkclicks 288 matchedotherclicks 679 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/12/2022 21:10" rcs 114 reach 4203 reactions 31 sharesimpress 19 title "Opinion | Is America Headed for Another Civil War?" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1777356932608818 ========== “If Trump won reelection in 2024, how long until California says, ‘Why are we sending [more in taxes] for every federal dollar we’re getting back?’ ” The logical peaceful outcome is regional federalism - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html The other possible outcomes are far worse. https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/10/10/country-after-second-trump-term/ And it's not just Trump. There are plenty of other Trumpists vying to be far worse. And plenty of fascists around the world eager to support Trumpism, starting with Putin. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-hungary-spain-italy-3ae6083fae3f01c4cbda192e35f368db Ukraine is already worried about what will happen if GOP wins the House in 2022. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/10/republicans-ukraine-putin-russia-midterms/ #PS1trumpism https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/10/10/country-after-second-trump-term/ ===== comments 1 impact 17 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-10-10 ratio 11 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title “If Trump won reelection in 2024, how long until topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 87 audclicks 1 commentsimpress 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1775675809443597 impress 22 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/10/2022 20:10" rcs 1 reach 22 title "Analysis | What Will Happen to America if Trump Wins Again? Experts Helped Us Game It Out." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1775675809443597 ========== Minority rule depends on maintaining the enthusiasm of single-issue and fringe groups. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html So Scott won't say anything about death threats, or racist comments. He can't afford to alienate any violent insurrectionists or racists just before an election. https://www.axios.com/2022/10/02/rick-scott-trump-mcconnell And Trump won't stop dropping n-word hints. He can't afford any enthusiasm drops among racists just before an election. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/08/trump-n-word-rally-dangerous/ So every non-white, non-anglo, or non-evangelical should think about what comes next if Trump's approach works this time. Of course, almost all of them have already thought about that and the Trump supporters that are left among them might just continue to close their eyes and ears and think happy thoughts about fortifying minority rule. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 22 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-10-08 ratio 6 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Minority rule depends on maintaining the enthusiasm of topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 112 audclicks 2 epoch Lifetime ID 1773992392945272 impress 14 matchedlinkclicks 2 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/08/2022 23:10" reach 12 title "Opinion | Trump’s flirtation with the n-word cannot be ignored" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1773992392945272 ========== Are we heading toward regional federalism? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html In order to fortify THEIR regime of minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Trumpists talk about a regime that they want to overthrow - the rule of law - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/us/politics/civil-war-social-media-trump.html to replace it with a cult of personality - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/05/marjorie-taylor-greene-political-violence-trump-jan-6/ So much for the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders! #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-10-07 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Are we heading toward regional federalism? topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 51 epoch Lifetime ID 1772567399754438 impress 11 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/07/2022 07:10" reach 9 title "Opinion | Why Marjorie Taylor Greene is raging about the Biden ‘regime’" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1772567399754438 ========== The Electoral Count Reform Act would reduce the impact of election deniers, but Congress better pass it while it can. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/06/election-deniers-republicans-count-congress/ Sorry, Cheney and Romney and all - the GOP is now the Trumpist Dixiecrat Party and predominately election denier - and reality denier - candidates, who deny the rule of law and the rest of the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/06/elections-deniers-midterm-elections-2022/ The Republican Party has swallowed the purple kool-aid and will follow the Whig Party into oblivion - sooner or later. To make it sooner, rational former Republicans need to begin the hard work of defining a progressive conservative party that is for rule of law and against personality cults. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-10-06 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The Electoral Count Reform Act would reduce the impact of topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 111 epoch Lifetime ID 1772081869802991 impress 12 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/06/2022 17:10" reach 10 title "A majority of GOP nominees — 299 in all — deny the 2020 election results" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1772081869802991 ========== Foreign wars were a great way for the ruling class to extract wealth and give themselves more power” And this guy's running as a Republican? Just who does he think got us into Iraq? Just who does he think is financing his campaign? “Impeachment, obstruction and oversight Now he's talking like a Trumpist Dixiecrat! Shut down the government completely! And let his voters survive by their own devices. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/opinion/house-republican-elections.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 1 impact 7 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-09-24 ratio 9 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Foreign wars were a great way for the ruling class to topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 69 commentsimpress 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1761445777533267 impress 11 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/24/2022 18:09" rcs 1 reach 9 title "Opinion | The Midterm Race That Has It All" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1761445777533267 ========== LOL Nothing Matters - because Nothing is true and everything is possible - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/04/nothing-is-true-and-everything-is-permitted-peter-pomerantsev-review-russia-oil-boom “It’s one small lie, followed by a demand for a bigger lie and a bigger concession, a bigger moral lapse, until, you know, these folks that I admired and respected, because I believe that they believe what they were saying, had given themselves up so completely to Donald Trump.” That's how the devil captures souls of politicians! https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1722010971476748 Political debate has become so degraded that it includes every kind of offense, be it anonymous officials humoring the former president, QAnon conspiracists exalting him or frenzied die-hards perpetrating violence on his behalf https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/opinion/trump-big-lie-big-joke.html #PS1trumpism ===== impact 10 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-09-22 ratio 11 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title LOL Nothing Matters - topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 104 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1759683321042846 impress 12 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/22/2022 15:09" reach 11 title "Opinion | The Inside Joke That Became Trump’s Big Lie" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1759683321042846 ========== Chosen by God - just like Hitler, Stalin, Putin,... https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#putin Christian Nationalism is on a mission - to preserve minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html They have no use for reason, democracy, inclusiveness, separation of church and state, or any other Enlightenment ideals of America's founders. https://www.denverpost.com/2022/09/14/lauren-boebert-christian-nationalist-republican-colorado/ More about political scrapbook at https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 379 hideall 1 impact 11821 impactrate 1 negative 1 posted 2022-09-14 ratio 2 react 2515 reactrate 0 shares 18 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2117 title Chosen by God - just like Hitler, Stalin, Putin,... topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 47 audclicks 2117 commentsimpress 379 epoch Lifetime hideallclicksusers 1 ID 1753101391701039 impress 6578 matchedlinkclicks 731 matchedotherclicks 1386 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/14/2022 09:09" rcs 519 reach 5589 reactions 122 sharesimpress 18 title "Lauren Boebert is part of a dangerous religious movement that threatens democracy, experts say" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1753101391701039 ========== Trumpism doesn't need Trump any more than Peronism needs Perón. When Trump refers to America First he's means the historical stream of pseudo-populist ethno-nationalist fascism that he is only the latest, and not the last, to paddle in. His many predecessors might be watching with interest, while his many would-be successors are eagerly waiting in the wings. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/history-america-first-dream-sarah-churchwell/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/09/09/america-first-american-dream-trumpism/ In its purest form, America First really means getting rid of everybody that isn't a white Protestant, and putting everybody who's left under control of old rich white Protestant male patriarchalists. Too bad for the six reactionary Catholics on the Supreme Court! They're just a means to an end. Likewise all those Jewish, or gay, or immigrant GOP megadonors who hope that their money will save them. It didn't in 1933. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/GAB_Rally_Poster.jpg https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1NnnTimiRMg/WpT7itsSUWI/AAAAAAAAPZg/Stqo7W5qL3Eg7fVL1yjDGkL8EOZAi75xgCLcBGAs/s1600/American_Nazis%2B%252814%2529.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund The good news about self-serving opportunists who lead faux populist political movements is that they attract other self-serving opportunists and promote them according to loyalty, rather than competence. We see the result of loyal incompetence in Russia's military today in Ukraine. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/11/europe/ukraine-russia-eastern-front/index.html More about political scrapbook at https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 71 hideall 1 impact 20843 impactrate 1 negative 1 posted 2022-09-11 ratio 3 react 1191 reactrate 0 shares 17 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1102 title Trumpism doesn't need Trump any more than Peronism needs topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 175 audclicks 1102 commentsimpress 71 epoch Lifetime hideallclicksusers 1 ID 1751084358569409 impress 5946 matchedlinkclicks 347 matchedotherclicks 755 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/11/2022 15:09" rcs 147 reach 3684 reactions 59 sharesimpress 17 title "Perspective | The ‘American Dream’? ‘America First’ eclipses it." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1751084358569409 ========== Who are the RINO's? For while the rabble, with their thumbworn creeds, Their large professions and their little deeds, Mingle in selfish strife; lo! Freedom weeps, Wrong rules the land, and waiting justice sleeps! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt are the Republicans at Mt Rushmore. Eisenhower and Reagan were the most admired Republicans of the 20th century. They have NOTHING in common with the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. So who are the real RINO's - Republicans in Name Only? Would any previous Republican leaders have won on a dark Make America Great Again slogan, implying that the country had somehow fallen, like the Roman Empire, from some previous high point? NO - their optimistic point of view was Make America Even Greater. God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law! But there's no doubt more money to be made peddling a dark vision - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/18/donald-trump-election-defense-fundraising-defrauded-fans Trump https://apnews.com/article/michael-flynn-christian-nationalism-investigation-50fa5dcff7f99cf93409fcd6c1357bee Flynn https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-new-york-manhattan-city-donald-trump-a8132ba5dc1f8818ca04747f4e04be02 Bannon https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-lifestyle-business-election-2020-government-and-politics-917bfd39a2e37f7e101d0492c88fc05f Powell https://news.yahoo.com/alex-jones-gloats-bankruptcy-plot-021440304.html Jones And why not? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/07/steve-bannon-indictment-trump-wall-right-wing-grift/ There's a sucker born every minute. And a lot of them donate and vote GOP. == But give Trump full credit for showing that traditional rule-of-law conservatism was never a mass movement, just a conceit of major donors, think tanks, and their candidates. The actual critical mass of Republican voters turned out to be holding their noses while they awaited the coming of a suitable personality to cultivate. And in 2016 he arrived, and that critical mass could let its inner fascist cultist out of the closet. == When Biden finally quit fighting with one hand tied behind his back, GOP leaders had their prerecorded responses ready - Joe Biden is the divider-in-chief and epitomizes the current state of the Democrat Party: one of divisiveness, disgust, and hostility towards half the country Not half! Only the fraction that supports the violent insurrectionists of Jan 6! Only the fraction that supports stealing stop secrets, storing them improperly, lying about it, and obstructing the investigation! Unfortunately the GOP leadership has decided to lead that fraction, abandoning the faith of their fathers - Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Reagan. He’s trying to stir up controversy, he’s trying to stir up this anti-Republican sentiment right before the election, it’s just – it’s horribly inappropriate Even truer if you switch Democrat and Republican, and Biden and either Trump or DeSantis! https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/politics/joe-biden-democracy-speech/index.html More about politicalscrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism ===== comments 233 impact 290095 impactrate 20 negative 0 posted 2022-09-07 ratio 2 react 7496 reactrate 1 shares 49 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 7214 title Who are the RINO's? topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 387 audclicks 7214 commentsimpress 233 epoch Lifetime ID 1748317822179396 impress 28312 matchedlinkclicks 2657 matchedotherclicks 4557 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/07/2022 22:09" rcs 594 reach 17040 reactions 312 sharesimpress 49 title "Opinion | The right-wing grift machine blows up in Steve Bannon’s face" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1748317822179396 ========== Traditional conservative daydreams with a populist slant - the evolution in conservative thinking toward greater focus on the interests of the working class and a greater role for government in addressing the free market’s shortcomings https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/opinion/republican-congress-agenda.html A genuine populist GOP Congress will be interested in actually helping the working class? It would be a Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP Congress - faux populist with lots of talk - and, just like last time it was in control, it will legislate the priorities of the megadonors that paid for its victory - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop tax cuts for billionaires, deregulation for billionaires, union busting for billionaires, and entitlement reform to privatize Medicare and Social Security so billionaires won't have to bail them out. Read Rick Scott's platform - he's in charge of regaining a GOP Senate majority - https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/23/politics/rick-scott-rescue-america-plan-gop/index.html But a Trumpist Congress top priorities will be purifying the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP, exacting revenge on apostates, https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump endless investigations of Democrats whether they find anything or not, and making sure the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP can't lose another election. Note that Trump himself is not essential to Trumpism and might not be part of this picture. Even if a faux populist like DeSantis or Hawley gets elected, he'll need the support of a Trumpist Congress to accomplish his agenda, and like Trump did, will soon accept that it's all about the megadonors - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mar-a-lago-christmas-trip/ More about politicalscrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1trumpism https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/opinion/republican-congress-agenda.html ===== comments 188 hideall 1 impact 30529 impactrate 2 negative 1 posted 2022-08-18 ratio 3 react 1339 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1148 title Traditional conservative daydreams with a populist slant - topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 228 audclicks 1148 commentsimpress 188 epoch Lifetime hideallclicksusers 1 ID 1733573893653789 impress 10273 matchedlinkclicks 478 matchedotherclicks 670 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "08/18/2022 10:08" rcs 232 reach 4859 reactions 42 sharesimpress 2 title "Opinion | What Republicans Should Do if They Win Big This Fall" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1733573893653789 ========== The essence of minority rule is to get the masses to act against their own interests and act for the minority rulers. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html And you can get rich doing that by selling lies to the gullible and hurting innocent people! Here's the cookbook - https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/06/politics/alex-jones-infowars-fringe-to-frontline/ Alex Jones and the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP cult of personality were made by each other and for each other. And over time, everybody at Fox looked at the Infowars ratings and seeming impunity to consequences and wanted to be just as profitable. So now the fringe is the GOP mainstream, and they call every rational rule-of-law Republican a RINO. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-08-03 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The essence of minority rule is to get the masses to topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 104 epoch Lifetime ID 1723031284708050 impress 17 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "08/03/2022 07:08" reach 16 title "The Alex Jones-ification of the GOP" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1723031284708050 ========== When you disprove somebody's religion, they don't thank you. They kill you. https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0705-stephens-trump-cult-20220701-ni6zi75v2bhwbeqmx732nubk5i-story.html Nobody ever joins a cult. Including cults of personality. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-07-03 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title When you disprove somebody's religion, they don't thank topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 22 epoch Lifetime ID 1700648896946289 impress 9 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "07/03/2022 17:07" reach 9 title "Bret Stephens: Will the Jan. 6 Committee finally bring down the cult of Trump? | GUEST COMMENTARY" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1700648896946289 ========== Dictators obtain power by promising things they can't and won't deliver. By the time the people realize it, it's too late, and they've lost their freedom and the ruling class oligarchs have robbed them blind. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist But there are always enablers to ghost-write their manifestos to lend an ideological veneer to a personality cult. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses So here's one such reactionary American Fascist manifesto. Putin or Hitler could have written it. Nothing conservative about it! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/17/national-conservative-manifesto-edmund-burke-foundation-trumpism/ #PS1trumpism ===== impact 7 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-06-18 ratio 9 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Dictators obtain power by promising things they can't and topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 73 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1689395181404994 impress 11 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "06/18/2022 07:06" reach 9 title "Opinion | A new ‘National Conservative’ manifesto sounds a lot like fascism" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1689395181404994 ========== Politicians travel in herds for safety. If prominent GOP leaders turn on Trump, it will happen all at once. They'll mostly be revisionist Trumpists though. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist Though most won't say anything publicly at the time - what counts is who's privately courting major GOP donors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/25/trump-midterms-setbacks-2024/ #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-05-25 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Politicians travel in herds for safety. If prominent topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 45 epoch Lifetime ID 1672425573101955 impress 11 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/25/2022 07:05" reach 10 title "Donald Trump recalibrates his standing in GOP after primary setbacks" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1672425573101955 ========== Ultra-MAGA - who benefits from that label? Aside from Rick Scott, most GOP leaders refuse to say what they'd do if they capture Congress. Nothing new about that - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop The main claim seems to be that America WAS great under Trump, so all MAGA means is re-elect Trump - or some other Trumpist - no questions asked. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/13/biden-ultra-maga/ #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-05-16 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Ultra-MAGA - who benefits from that label? topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 58 epoch Lifetime ID 1666058880405291 impress 10 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/16/2022 19:05" reach 9 title "Biden sees a new threat: ‘Ultra MAGA’ Republicans" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1666058880405291 ========== Theodore Bilbo - a man who, 70 years in advance, knew more about Trumpism than Trump does. He filibustered to great effect - https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/mitch-mcconnell-wrong-filibuster-fact-racist-n1262117 And told American Negroes that their only hope was to return to Africa. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2211284 Maybe Bilbo did some good things, but the only one I know about was his appointing my father to West Point in 1943. Graduating in 1946, my father commanded white Puerto Rican and black Puerto Rican units, recruited the top Puerto Rican high school graduates for the Army, and became an early supporter of Truman's order to integrate the armed forces - https://www.history.com/news/harry-truman-executive-order-9981-desegration-military-1948 Bilbo would have been against military integration, of course, if he had lived longer. But his legacy is thriving - George Wallace https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/george-wallace-trump-white-anger/?itid=hp-top-table-main and Strom Thurmond picked up his torch - and segregationists and antisemites are still two essential voting constituencies of Republican minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Traditional GOP politicians sometimes utter pieties against white supremacists and antisemites but they never disdain their votes. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law Traditionalists are now getting drowned out by Trumpists trumpeting the Great Replacement Theory. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/16/buffalo-massacre-great-replacement-theory-republicans They all owe much to Bilbo. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/15/great-replacement-theory-buffalo-bilbo/ #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-05-16 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Theodore Bilbo - a man who, 70 years in advance, knew more topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 180 epoch Lifetime ID 1665816050429574 impress 12 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/16/2022 10:05" reach 11 title "The roots of the ‘great replacement theory’ believed to fuel Buffalo suspect" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1665816050429574 ========== Trumpists have been around since 1619 under various names - no reason to expect them to go away any time soon. Their influence waxes and wanes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/09/trump-trumpism-repubublican-success-popular-with-voters/ In the past, when persuadable voters tire of the populist kleptocratic rabble with their thumb-worn creeds, their large professions and their little deeds then America's better angels have gotten them under control, but there's no reason to assume that will always be the case. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-05-09 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Trumpists have been around since 1619 under various names topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 71 epoch Lifetime ID 1660885140922665 impress 13 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/09/2022 21:05" reach 10 title "Opinion | Trumpism is terrible. It also might be popular." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1660885140922665 ========== Abortion restrictions don't bother rich donors who can travel, but oppress poor women and excite the single-issue right-to-life voters that the rich donors need to support their candidates that will confirm reactionary judges - that will rule the right way on issues the rich donors care about. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Supreme Court justices doing the job they were appointed to do! https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-07439f9fc4542f1500ab78dfd34036b1 #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-05-02 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Abortion restrictions don't bother rich donors who can topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 59 epoch Lifetime ID 1655459224798590 impress 11 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/02/2022 20:05" reach 9 title "Report: Draft opinion suggests high court could overturn Roe" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1655459224798590 ========== The modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is not conservative in any sense; reactionary, perhaps, but transactional above all, with no underlying principle than kleptocratic cult of personality, and so ultimately not much different from Putinism. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump Traditional conservatives are starting to notice that. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/opinion/desantis-republicans-disney.html But Trump has proved that traditional conservatism was never a mass movement; it's mass turned out to just be waiting for a suitable personality to cultivate. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-05-01 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is not conservative in topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 68 epoch Lifetime ID 1654659031545276 impress 9 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/01/2022 19:05" reach 8 title "Opinion | The Party of Big Business Is Getting More Anti-Conservative by the Day" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1654659031545276 ========== What does the Ohio senate campaign teach us about Trumpism? For Vance, is it the core of the Trumpian project isn’t intraparty power struggles or demagogy; it’s reconnecting politics to ordinary people If so then he's badly mistaken. Trump's speciality is the demagogue's - confuse the masses into thinking the your interests are theirs. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump That's how the Confederacy hung on for so long - by convincing poor whites that they had more in common with rich white slaveholders than with poor black slaves. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses Each of the Republican candidates in the primary has built his or her campaign around an implicit hypothesis about how to appeal to Trump, and thus about what Trumpism is in the first place. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/29/opinion/jd-vance-senate.html If Vance thinks his appeal to Trump is ideological, he's badly mistaken again. Trump just hates to be a loser and imagines that his endorsement will propel Vance to a victory that redounds to Trump's credit. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-05-01 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title What does the Ohio senate campaign teach us about Trumpism? topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 154 epoch Lifetime ID 1654654071545772 impress 11 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/01/2022 19:05" reach 8 title "Opinion | The Decline of Ohio and the Rise of J.D. Vance" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1654654071545772 ========== If it's President DeSantis in 2025 - we might be longing for incompetent and ignorant President Trump again. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/30/opinions/desantis-trumpism-2-0-dantonio/index.html Trump's lasting contribution to American politics is proving that traditional conservatism was never a mass movement. The mass of Dixiecrat GOP voters were not really traditional conservatives - they were just waiting for the right personality to cultivate. Now they have a variety of such personalities for 2024. #PS1trumpism ===== comments 1 impact 20 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-04-30 ratio 1 react 3 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title If it's President DeSantis in 2025 - we might be longing topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 67 audclicks 1 commentsimpress 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1653630841648095 impress 7 matchedotherclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "04/30/2022 08:04" rcs 2 reach 5 sharesimpress 1 title "Opinion: DeSantis is trying to out-Trump Trump" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1653630841648095 ========== Trump's greatest achievement - proving that traditional conservatism was never a mass movement. Second - proving that the GOP voter base was fertile ground for a nativist populist kleptocratic cult of personality. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump Most major GOP donors have come around to accept that as the most effective avenue toward their goals. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/opinion/trump-trumpism-republican-party.html #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-04-21 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Trump's greatest achievement - proving that traditional topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 51 epoch Lifetime ID 1647474902263689 impress 5 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "04/21/2022 10:04" reach 4 title "Opinion | With or Without Trump, the MAGA Movement Is the Future of the Republican Party" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1647474902263689 ========== Precepts of Trumpism Nothing is true and everything is possible, so the truth is what Trump says today. Never admit anything; hit back twice as hard. L'état, c'est moi. Après moi le déluge. Compare to Putinism and Revisionist Trumpism at https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-03-07 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Precepts of Trumpism topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 41 epoch Lifetime ID 1615955165415663 impress 7 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "03/07/2022 19:03" reach 6 title "Political Credos" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1615955165415663 ========== How will America First play out in 2022 and 2024? https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-donald-trump-campaigns-foreign-policy-4625a28e59996ff16085fdf30910a449 Trump didn't deter Putin in Ukraine; just defer. Putin thought if Trump were re-elected, Trump would leave NATO and Putin could just walk into Ukraine. Putin might be kicking himself for not making the extra effort in the 2020 election to convert Trump's 43,000 vote loss into another 78,000 vote win. After Trump lost and Biden committed to NATO, Putin decided it was time to act. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-03-05 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title How will America First play out in 2022 and 2024? topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 77 epoch Lifetime ID 1614250612252785 impress 6 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "03/05/2022 05:03" reach 5 title "Trump's praise of Putin, 'America First' view tested by war" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1614250612252785 ========== The real question is - if Putin invaded Florida to exterminate Biden and his administration and install a puppet government, would Trump or DeSantis be there at the beach to welcome him ashore and lobby to be installed as puppet president? After all, Ron DeSantis is just as knowledgeable and competent as Trump to be leader of the free world! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance#Guerrilla_warfare https://msn.com/en-us/news/world/ron-desantis-says-french-would-e2-80-98probably-e2-80-99-do-nothing-if-putin-invaded-france/ar-AAUwwJi #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-03-03 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The real question is - if Putin invaded Florida to topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 61 epoch Lifetime ID 1612930985718081 impress 12 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "03/03/2022 07:03" rcs 1 reach 10 reactions 1 title "Ron DeSantis Says French Would ‘Probably’ Do Nothing If Putin Invaded France" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1612930985718081 ========== Until the Republican Party examines the way Trump’s enthusiasm for Putin and expansive nationalism led to this moment, they can’t effectively stand with Ukraine https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/02/kim-reynolds-response-biden-true-face-gop/ Putin doesn't mind if Trumpists pretend to support Ukraine, and stick to thoughts and prayers, as long as they don't DO anything to support Ukraine, and as long as they oppose Biden in every way, since he IS doing something to support Ukraine - acting as leader of the free world, something Trump would never do, nor Putin allow him to do. Next installment - Biden's proposed aid package to Ukraine is too expensive and will cause inflation. GOP response to State of Union was to talk about culture war issues that are not very Federal, criticize Biden's foreign policy without offering any credible explanation of what they would have done differently and how that would have produced a better outcome. And above all, not one word about the real GOP agenda - tax cuts, deregulation, entitlement reform, union busting, and reactionary judges - all to benefit their billionaire major donors. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-03-02 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Until the Republican Party examines the way Trump’s topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 176 epoch Lifetime ID 1612520489092464 impress 11 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "03/02/2022 17:03" reach 9 title "Opinion | Kim Reynolds shows the true face of the GOP — but not the one she intended" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1612520489092464 ========== McConnell AND McCarthy are unclear on the concept! They think there's no place in the Republican Party for white supremacists but just who exactly do they think provides the voter base for the Putinist Trumpist Dixiecrat Cult of Personality? The white supremacists and anti-Semites are the ones who fought and will fight like hell for Trump. There's no disowning them without disowning Trump, and then he disowns you! https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/28/politics/republican-reaction-marjorie-taylor-greene/index.html Get real! This is the bed you made and now you lie so well in it. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-02-28 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title McConnell AND McCarthy are unclear on the concept! topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 85 epoch Lifetime ID 1611192072558639 impress 12 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "02/28/2022 19:02" rcs 1 reach 9 reactions 1 title "GOP leaders condemn 2 House Republicans for associating with White nationalist event" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1611192072558639 ========== Unclear on the concept! Traditional conservatives like Romney are the morons on the Putinist/Trumpist Dixiecrat Cult of Personality team. He can join Liz Cheney. They are morons for thinking traditional conservatism was a mass movement, when what they thought was their mass movement was really just waiting for the right personality to cultify. The Trumpists want to purge the remaining traditional conservatives as quickly as possible. White nationalists are a much more reliable Trumpist constituency than traditional conservatives. They fight like hell for him! https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/27/politics/mitt-romney-gop-ukraine-russia/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impact 26 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-02-27 ratio 2 react 3 reactrate 0 shares 3 sharesrate 0 title Unclear on the concept! topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 85 epoch Lifetime ID 1610561555955024 impress 9 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "02/27/2022 21:02" rcs 5 reach 7 reactions 2 sharesimpress 3 title "'I've got morons on my team': Romney blasts fellow GOP members for attending White nationalist event and supporting Putin | CNN Politics" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1610561555955024 ========== Canadian trucking crisis - it's all about influencing US elections - and increasing ratings and making money. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-ottawa-canada-539e3ad520ede8bd93e067ecd2d6a33d What would the American donors think about foreign countries spending money to influence our elections? We already know the answer - Trump and his enablers welcomed Russian interference in 2016 - and wish there had been more in 2020. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 6 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-02-17 ratio 7 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title Canadian trucking crisis - it's all about influencing US topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 57 epoch Lifetime ID 1603530543324792 impress 12 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "02/17/2022 16:02" rcs 1 reach 7 sharesimpress 1 title "How American cash for Canada protests could sway US politics" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1603530543324792 ========== Protest convenient for Trumpism! Encourage legitimate political discourse, cause all kinds of economic harm, then blame Biden for inflation and unemployment! https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/13/opinions/canada-truckers-protest-rand-paul-obeidallah/index.html Economic paralysis in the west is also convenient for Putin as he prepares for Ukraine. https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1492540755604213764 #PS1trumpism https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/13/opinions/canada-truckers-protest-rand-paul-obeidallah/index.html ===== impact 4 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-02-14 ratio 9 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title Protest convenient for Trumpism! Encourage legitimate topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 37 epoch Lifetime ID 1601126790231834 impress 10 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "02/14/2022 06:02" rcs 1 reach 9 sharesimpress 1 title "Opinion: Rand Paul's convenient U-turn on protests" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1601126790231834 ========== The anti-Trump constituency is one out of 10 Republican voters But what about GOP donors? That's the important number, and the one McConnell pays attention to. If you've got the donors, you can get the voters. https://apnews.com/article/congress-mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-elections-censures-ab60ddc94d1afb8c1162697e14aca66c This fight was inevitable once victory seemed within reach. Which victor gets the spoils, the Trumpists who vote looking backward, or the traditional conservatives who fund looking forward? #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-02-09 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The anti-Trump constituency is one out of 10 Republican topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 65 epoch Lifetime ID 1598157117195468 impress 9 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "02/09/2022 21:02" reach 8 title "Republican rift exposes choice: With Trump or against him" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1598157117195468 ========== Unclear on the concept! We should be focused on truly who our opponents are this is a fight between Donald Trump and (Kinzinger and Cheney), not the party Donald Trump IS the party, as the RNC just ratified. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-campaigns-utah-election-2020-campaign-2016-4b1019e8371129c7bb25ab2731845046 His greatest opponents are those who voted against him, and there is no victory without vengeance on the disloyal. That's how cult of personality works. GOP who don't think they are part of a cult of personality need to be re-educated. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/politics/kevin-mccarthy-liz-cheney-republican-party/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-02-04 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Unclear on the concept! topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 80 epoch Lifetime ID 1594787174199129 impress 8 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "02/04/2022 19:02" reach 7 title "McCarthy in bind as conservatives push GOP to oust Cheney in her primary" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1594787174199129 ========== The Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP Big Tent has room for QAnons and insurrectionists but not traditional rule-of-law conservatives. The fantasy fringes are 100% behind Trump's cult of personality rather than rule of law. So will RNC excommunicate Cheney and Kinzinger? https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/politics/rnc-resolution-cheney-kinzinger/index.html That's Trumpism in action - if you make a mistake, double down on it. Is McConnell next? He acknowledged that the Jan 6 committee is finding something the public needs to know. Defrocking him would really cement the cult of personality. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/politics/republicans-january-6-committee-miscalculations/index.html It all will come down to who has the major donors. If you've got the donors, you can find the votes. McConnell doesn't show up on Fox much, but all the major donors have worked productively with him for years. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-02-01 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP Big Tent has room for QAnons topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 121 epoch Lifetime ID 1592722187738961 impress 7 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "02/01/2022 23:02" reach 5 title "Analysis: The massive miscalculation Republicans made on the 1/6 committee" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1592722187738961 ========== What is the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican Party? Is it the personal cult party of Donald J Trump? Is it the cult party of pseudo-populist Trumpism - possibly better embodied in one of his many would-be successors? Peronism was still extremely popular even with after there were no more Perons actually around. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/29/sundaytake-trump-polls/ Is it the ideological party of traditional conservatism? Not likely - there's no mass movement behind it. The mass movement behind Reagan and Bush was just the Dixiecrat Trump base waiting for its true champion to emerge - Gingrich? Tea Party? Freedom Caucus? No - they were waiting for Trump, who gave them permission to say and do whatever they really felt, just as he does. By the rule-of-law standards of traditional conservatism, Trumpists are Republicans in Name Only, but Trump turned the tables and put that label on rule-of-law traditional conservatives instead. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-01-30 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title What is the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican Party? topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 146 epoch Lifetime ID 1590984627912717 impress 8 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/30/2022 07:01" reach 8 title "Analysis | Do Republicans love Donald Trump as they once did?" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1590984627912717 ========== Recovering Trumpist advises other recovering Trumpists. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/26/republicans-main-job-right-now-isnt-defining-themselves-its-breaking-with-trump/ But Abernathy doesn't seem to have learned a thing. His big issue is Trump's rejection of the rule of law - but that's been a constant of Trump's entire life, and it has served him well so far. Abernathy recommends several would-be Trumpist successors. But they all strive to enable and emulate Trump, as they try to differentiate themselves somehow. Trumpism is still a cult of personality, even if the successors want to make if a cult of themselves, while retaining the Trump base of voters and donors and reactionary media engine. The traditional conservative GOP rule-of-law contingent is tiny and shrinking. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-01-27 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Recovering Trumpist advises other recovering Trumpists. topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 109 epoch Lifetime ID 1589195214758325 impress 6 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/27/2022 11:01" reach 4 title "Opinion | Republicans’ main job right now isn’t defining themselves. It’s breaking with Trump." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1589195214758325 ========== Sounds like Tucker Carlson is making his play for the 2024 GOP nomination. He sounds like an ultra-Trumpist - “I really hope that Republican primary voters are ruthless about this, and vote out any Republican who believes Ukraine’s borders are more important than our borders.” Purity is strength - for Putin and for Trumpists! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/27/tucker-carlson-support-putin-republicans/ “In the Carlson-MAGA worldview, Putin is an avatar of white Christian nationalism.” Just like a certain German politician in 1938. Carlson follows in the America First tradition of Charles Lindbergh. Lindbergh faded overnight on December 8, 1941, when the war came to America. But when his turn comes, Carlson will be leading the charge against democracy. Trump seems to be quiet right now on Ukraine - perhaps worried about losing his hold on his base either to Carlson on Ukraine or DeSantis on vaccines. But if Trump does nothing, other would-be successors will pile on. For instance, Nikki Haley is laying it on from the opposite direction - https://www.newsweek.com/nikki-haley-joe-biden-kamala-harris-resign-america-russia-ukraine-1673482 She thinks Biden should be tougher on Russia and China. It should make for a bloody GOP primary season - starting March 1 in Texas and May 3 in Ohio. #PS1trumpism https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/27/tucker-carlson-support-putin-republicans/ ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-01-27 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Sounds like Tucker Carlson is making his play for the 2024 topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 193 epoch Lifetime ID 1589168431427670 impress 9 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/27/2022 10:01" reach 6 title "Opinion | Tucker Carlson’s pro-Russia rants give Republicans exactly what they deserve" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1589168431427670 ========== Is the Trump star waxing or waning? You can see whatever you want to see - WANING - https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/18/politics/trump-administration-officials-against-former-boss-2022/index.html The Anti-Trump traditional conservatives don't agree on much. Would they accept the suggestion to focus on rule-of-law vs cult-of-personality? https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1581405462203967 Do they understand that Trump has proven that traditional conservatism was never really a mass movement? They thought that Reagan was the messiah that GOP voters sought, but really it was Trump cult of personality. Polls are tricky though - in 2016 and 2020 many Trump voters claimed they were undecided or independent when they didn't trust the pollster. A lot of Democratic campaign money was thus thrown away on lost causes. Can his would-be successors mount a successful putsch to keep him on the sidelines? https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1582263685451478 WAXING - https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/18/politics/donald-trump-one-year-out-of-office/index.html It's certain that he will run in 2024. He wants to hear that his base wants him to run, and as always he will surround himself with people who will tell him what he wants to hear. His handlers are trying to get him to focus on Biden rather than on the 2020 election, but Trump can't let go of disloyalty until every disloyal official has been purged. And focusing on Biden might backfire if inflation and supply chain issues get resolved in time. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-01-18 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Is the Trump star waxing or waning? You can see topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 210 epoch Lifetime ID 1582963835381463 impress 6 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/18/2022 07:01" reach 4 title "A year after leaving office, Trump looks to 2022 to rebrand his legacy" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1582963835381463 ========== Can DeSantis get away with it? He’s Trump but a little smarter, more disciplined and brusque. And thus more dangerous. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/16/us/trump-desantis.html If DeSantis can get enough donors to help him run against Trump, then all the other would-be Trump successors will try as well. After all, a self-serving opportunist at the top attracts self-serving opportunists all the way down, whose professions of loyalty are at best skin-deep, just like Trump's. Once those would-be successors start saying what they really think about Trump and their fellow enablers, it could get very ugly. Exponentially ugly, exponentially quickly, just like the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban. You get a preview every time Trump denouces one of his former supporters for disloyalty. But succession in a cult of personality usually gets pretty ugly. The contenders would much rather honor Trump as a blessed memory than as a living nuisance impeding their career paths. Each will announce himself as the one true embodiment of true Trump though, and denounce his competitors as self-serving opportunists. They'll each be right about that last part. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 18 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2022-01-17 ratio 14 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Can DeSantis get away with it? He’s Trump but a little topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 178 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1582263685451478 impress 17 likeimpress 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/17/2022 06:01" reach 14 title "Who Is King of Florida? Tensions Rise Between Trump and a Former Acolyte." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1582263685451478 ========== Democratic hopes in 2022 and 2024 hinge on Trump keeping the focus on Trump! After all, Trump endorses the Dixiecrat GOP primary candidates least likely to win the general - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/15/us/politics/trump-rally-republicans.html But no problem, red state legislatures will declare they won anyway. Still, some GOP candidates wonder how close to stick to Trump - especially if they don't control the legislature - https://apnews.com/article/arizona-donald-trump-campaigns-presidential-elections-elections-be1c94516de16d480870ea8f46e0f35b So Graham threatens McConnell if he doesn't shape up - https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/trump-lindsey-graham-mitch-mcconnell/index.html But it's a foregone conclusion that Trump will demand that McConnell and McCarthy be replaced with loyalists if GOP controls Congress. Trump's many would-be successors would much rather honor him as a blessed memory than as a living nuisance impeding their career plans. Thus DeSantis is already gearing up to attack Trump from the right - and he's very popular with the Trump base. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/politics/desantis-trump-covid-response/index.html Others will pile on too if it looks like DeSantis can get away with it. Once all the would-be Trump successors start saying what they really think about Trump and their fellow enablers, it will get very ugly. But succession in a cult of personality always gets very ugly. Still, the virus and inflation and Putin and Xi could save minority rule from Trump and deliver a reactionary Congress despite his best efforts. #PS1trumpism https://apnews.com/article/arizona-donald-trump-campaigns-presidential-elections-elections-be1c94516de16d480870ea8f46e0f35b ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-01-15 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Democratic hopes in 2022 and 2024 hinge on Trump keeping topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 209 epoch Lifetime ID 1581385725539274 impress 5 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/15/2022 23:01" reach 4 title "Some in GOP begin testing party's lockstep loyalty to Trump | AP News" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1581385725539274 ========== Did you enjoy the endless investigations of Benghazi and Clinton's emails? https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/republican-majority-investigation-plans-midterms/index.html Then you'll love a Trumpist Dixiecrat cult of personality Congress - they'll be so busy investigating the same things over and over that they won't have time to pass any laws about tax cuts and deregulation and union busting. That might be a good thing. McConnell would use such a situation as cover to pass his minority rule agenda. But Trump's chosen successor to McConnell might be too busy with Fox appearances praising Trump to actually pass anything. Trump proved he couldn't get anything past the GOP Senate caucus, much less Congress; in four years he couldn't propose, much less pass, an infrastructure bill or a replacement for Obamacare. Demolition is Trump's special power, not construction. McCarthy has already promised to remove Democratic leaders from committees - for being Democrats and opposing Trump. Whoever Trump chooses to replace McCarthy will probably be even worse. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/11/opinions/kevin-mccarthy-gop-threat-american-democracy-filipovic/index.html And they'll impeach Biden and Harris for being Democrats and opposing Trump. Trumpist Dixiecrat minority rule is fortified everywhere against democracy. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/politics/joe-biden-democrats-conservative-power/index.html They don't even have to face debates any more! https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/rnc-presidential-debates-trump/index.html Regional federalism anybody? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html #PS1trumpism https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/republican-majority-investigation-plans-midterms/index.html ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-01-15 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Did you enjoy the endless investigations of Benghazi and topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 189 epoch Lifetime ID 1581371612207352 impress 6 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/15/2022 22:01" reach 6 title "GOP plots onslaught of Biden probes in the run-up to 2024" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1581371612207352 ========== Just another day in the life of a Trump. First he outrages his base by suggesting that sometimes it's a good idea to tell the truth - https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-donald-trump-election-2020-b85328cc76781d264fd84022999ccfeb Then quickly reverts to form, saying it's a bad idea to tell the truth - https://apnews.com/article/elections-voting-donald-trump-south-dakota-election-2020-420e506aa4c3f2a5af18458708d8c154 And then he refuses to answer questions about why he keeps lying - https://news.yahoo.com/trump-rage-quits-npr-interview-110147973.html Sen Rounds is hoping other GOP senators will speak up. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/12/politics/trump-mcconnell-2022/index.html Forget that - speak up now and get primaried, don't speak up now and have whatever good you've done permanently eclipsed for enabling Trump and Trumpism. Being silent they presumably just want to remain in office yet be forgotten in history. Likewise, support McConnell and get attacked by Trump. Blast McConnell and lose all the dark funding he channels to GOP candidates. But Senate Leadership Fund and another McConnell-linked group known as American Crossroads spent a combined $462 million in the 2020 cycle and are expected to make significant investments in this midterm cycle as well. That's a lot more than Trump would spend. CNN claims Trump is beginning to realize the limits of his influence - https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/01/12/donald-trump-mitch-mcconnell-gop-influence-orr-newday-ldn-vpx.cnn As Jesse Unruh liked to say, Money is the mother's milk of politics. If Trump paid more attention to how most GOP legislators get elected, he'd know that enough money usually gets you enough votes. #PS1trumpism https://apnews.com/article/elections-voting-donald-trump-south-dakota-election-2020-420e506aa4c3f2a5af18458708d8c154 ===== impact 44 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2022-01-12 ratio 8 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Just another day in the life of a Trump. topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 218 engaged 2 epoch Lifetime ID 1579181705759676 impress 19 likeimpress 2 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/12/2022 14:01" reach 17 title "Sen. Rounds pushes GOP to get 'louder' on false Trump claims | AP News" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1579181705759676 ========== SOME GOP senators are willing to defend a colleague from Trump. Not all, and maybe not even most. They all need to realize that whatever they feel, Trump's issue #1 has been, is, and will be the stolen 2020 election, along with revenge on every GOP official who did not, does not, or will not support Trump 100%. So what are they all going to do about it? So far, not much. hoping the issue will go away. As if they do not know Trump and his methods. But Trump's silent enablers are just as guilty as his noisy enablers, perhaps worse. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/11/politics/mike-rounds-republican-defense/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-01-11 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title SOME GOP senators are willing to defend a colleague from topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 103 epoch Lifetime ID 1578736502470863 impress 7 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/11/2022 23:01" reach 5 title "Top Republicans stand up for Rounds after Trump's attack: He 'told the truth'" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1578736502470863 ========== Another traditional conservative unclear on the Trumpist Dixiecrat personality cult concept. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/opinion/voting-rights-democrats.html The Trumpists - and that now includes most GOP - are NOT interested in fair elections or voter confidence in fair elections. They are interested in defending minority rule by never losing another election, no matter what. Just like China, Russia, or North Korea. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-01-03 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Another traditional conservative unclear on the Trumpist topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 56 epoch Lifetime ID 1573396079671572 impress 6 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/03/2022 19:01" reach 6 title "Opinion | Democrats, Voting Rights Are Not the Problem" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1573396079671572 ========== Conspiracism as reality-TV and pro wrestling! It's all about fighting over the ratings and thus the money. A self-serving opportunist at the top attracts self-serving opportunists all the way down, and they each have to create serviceable opportunities as best they can. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/03/trump-qanon-online-money-war-jan6/ The infighting reflects the diminishing financial rewards for the merchants of right-wing disinformation, whose battles center not on policy or doctrine but on the treasures of online fame: viewer donations and subscriptions; paid appearances at rallies and conferences; and crowds of followers to buy their books and merchandise. There might be a sucker born every minute, but most of them don't have any disposable income, so the fight is on to capture those that do. Too many opportunists, not enough suckers. In 1934 it took a night of long knives to sort all this out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives How will all the would-be Trump successors navigate these tricky currents? They'd like the sucker votes as well as the money, but they are up against each other as well as against Trump, though they can't admit it. And what about the foreign and domestic insurrectionists? They need the suckers for cannon fodder against the Constitution, not against each other. Maybe there will be an epiphany on Jan 6, 2022. How will it be similar to or different from that of Jan 6, 2021? Both Biden and Trump are planning major addresses. #PS1trumpism https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/03/trump-qanon-online-money-war-jan6/ ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-01-03 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Conspiracism as reality-TV and pro wrestling! It's all topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 230 epoch Lifetime ID 1573016689709511 impress 9 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/03/2022 05:01" reach 9 title "Since Jan. 6, the pro-Trump Internet has descended into infighting over money and followers" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1573016689709511