The best deal is the one where everyone still wants to work with you after the deal is done. Not necessarily that everyone gets everything they want, but they're still willing to develop the relationship.
Yeah Trump’s book is about how to burnish your ego and feel like you’re winning whether or not you actually are. A better metric is how to establish long term mutually beneficial relationships with others so that you create an entire self sustaining ecosystem around you. Trump knows nothing about that.
Nah. Trump is not different, the people backing him are just way more organized. They were not subtle about any of this. Anyone who believed he wouldn't do the things he and his people literally said they wanted to do, is willfully ignorant. People like this are not trustworthy. All it will take is a slightly better lie to get them to turn on us again. Admitting you were wrong about something so obvious doesn't deserve praise.
Trump 1.0 was forced into surrounding himself with more typical NeoLib Republicans who kept their same usual trajectory of just mildly fucking Americans and the budget without making too much of a splash.
Trump 2.0 is embracing the more radicals who openly want to tear America down and rebuild it into a white nationalist Oligarchy.
An alternative argument i have heard is that the evangelical Christian groups are championing this because they think destabilizing America will bring about Armageddon, and as such will bring about the 2nd coming of Christ.
You know, because playing chicken with God works out so well historically ( if you believe the Bible they say they follow, but have never read).
In addition, that adds clarity as to why there is such support for Israel.
The prevailing belief is that Jerusalem will be the new kingdom, so protecting that by any monstrous means necessary is actually being supportive of God, and not in any way against Jesus' teachings.
Most of the Evangelicals are not that into the weeds of their religion. When interviewed, most understood Trump wasn't really religious, and they weren't saying they wanted Armageddon. The most common answer of why they voted for him is because they felt he was protecting them. Not that any of that statement is true, but that they think he is protecting them and they think they are being persecuted.
It's pretty easy to spin geopolitical interests to the typical voter without some deeper religious lore. America largely supports Israel because we have since the Cold War, and Democrats in general also support Israel. Only on the fringes do we see the opposite because the farther left supports Palestine for leftist reasons, while parts of the extreme right supports Palestine because they hate Jews more than they hate Arabs. Seeing blue haired liberal college students protesting for Palestine probably hardens the typical Evangelical's support for Israel more than than some obscure reason of Jerusalem becoming the New Kingdom. It's just "Woke student protesting for Palestine. Woke = bad. Israel must be good".
Yeah, he's not admitting we were right by the way. He's just saying trump 2.0 is different,,, but he couldn't figure it out ahead of time,,, but he's also a "man of honor".
And trump 2.0 is like a revamped version of Trump? If anything is just Trump knowing full well that he either dies in office or stays in office until dying. Democracy is not longer an option for him.
A quick web search reveals that "Trump 2.0" refers specifically to his second term, not to a new and different version of Trump or changes in his behavior. Trump 2.0 could've turned out much the same as Trump 1.0, but people like OOP are now learning that it is not.
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