11-09-2020, 12:49 PM
(11-09-2020, 12:44 PM)Dill Wrote: Trump is thin-skinned, but I don't think it's just that.
It's also that Cohn-style MO--attack, accuse them of what you do first. Loudly and repeatedly.
He was doing that before president. He was doing it in 2016 when he claimed the Iowa primary was rigged against him.
But he is not the problem; the problem is still the high number of people who buy in.
Their credulity, cultivated for decades now, is his power.
I think here is where you go of the rails a bit. People don't support Trump because they're credulous. This comes off as incredibly condescending. They support him because they oppose what he opposes (in theory) and they both repudiate the worst excesses of the Democrats. Couple that with him having an odd sort of charisma (at least in 2016) and a desire to move outside the current system of power and you have a recipe for some rather staunch loyalty. Trump supporters aren't middle of the road types, they're going to find much of the Dem platform utterly unpalatable. If they see Trump as the best bulwark against that agenda they will stick with him. If he ceases to be that they will move on.
