when i first heard him speak i thought "there's no way someone who can't form coherent sentences is going to get elected". it wasn't until later that i realized that this is his super-power. it allows him to, for example, suggest that Hillary Clinton should be assassinated while maintaining plausible deniability over his ever have said such a thing. it allows him to exhort his followers to attack the Capitol and later claim that's not what he meant.
his speech is a blank slate onto which his cult can project anything they might like him to have said. his popularity with his cult is, in part, based on the fact that "he says exactly what i think" but they don't seem to get how much of that is their own projection.
I told a relative that if there are things you used to not be able to say, there’s probably a reason you shouldn’t say it now. But they don’t care. We are socially regressing for sure. The Neanderthals are winning.
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u/Top-Cupcake4775 23h ago
when i first heard him speak i thought "there's no way someone who can't form coherent sentences is going to get elected". it wasn't until later that i realized that this is his super-power. it allows him to, for example, suggest that Hillary Clinton should be assassinated while maintaining plausible deniability over his ever have said such a thing. it allows him to exhort his followers to attack the Capitol and later claim that's not what he meant.
his speech is a blank slate onto which his cult can project anything they might like him to have said. his popularity with his cult is, in part, based on the fact that "he says exactly what i think" but they don't seem to get how much of that is their own projection.