

Presumably his advisors determined that he needed to Overton more and faster if he wanted to ensure that he’d be the neolib weasel the DNC shoves down our throats in 2028.
Presumably his advisors determined that he needed to Overton more and faster if he wanted to ensure that he’d be the neolib weasel the DNC shoves down our throats in 2028.
It’s really sort of amazing.
While most corrupt politicians would be content to work for the benefit of whoever pays them a fat enough bribe, Trump appears to actually go out of his way to only work for the most foul, loathsome and destructive corporations and industries. It’s as if he has a rigid set of negative standards - “you must be this evil to gain my advocacy” - and any industry or corporation that isn’t sufficiently evil is turned away.
I’m guessing you think
You don’t have the foggiest idea what I think, so don’t you fucking dare mansplain it to me.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it, good and hard.” - H.L. Mencken
No surprise there - Republicans have hated Wikipedia pretty much from the start, since they require valid attribution and constantly fact check, which means the Republicans can’t spin their lies.
Expect to see a lot more of that all around the world.
Trump can hide enough of his caprice and his pettiness and his self-absorption behind emotive rhetoric to fool the MAGAs, but none of that works on an international scale. The rest of the world just sees him, accurately, as a petulant, self-serving asshole and raving lunatic who can’t be trusted. Ever. And that’s the way they’re going to treat him, and the US by extension.
That’d be about par for the course. When too much attention is focused on their abject evil in Gaza, one of their strategies is to suddenly go stir the shit in Iran or Lebanon or Syria and get attention focused there instead.