My guess is that he finally realized that his base won’t give up on him no matter what he does and republican legislators have completely lashed themselves to the ship of Trump so they have no choice but to go along with it or see their entire political career go up in flames during the next primary.
Why do you need fixers when you are invincible and you have a legion of rubes who will stop at nothing to excuse your bad behavior? We are at “Trump is a pedophile, but that’s okay” levels of cognitive dissociation amidst republican voters. I’m not sure the bar could go any lower that this without Trump directly committing an act of homicide. Even then, it probably wouldn’t budge an inch.
For Trump, bad press is good press, and good press is very very good press.
Why do you think he doesn’t currently have a slew of sycophantic fixers inside the admin at this point?
My guess is that he finally realized that his base won’t give up on him no matter what he does and republican legislators have completely lashed themselves to the ship of Trump so they have no choice but to go along with it or see their entire political career go up in flames during the next primary.
Why do you need fixers when you are invincible and you have a legion of rubes who will stop at nothing to excuse your bad behavior? We are at “Trump is a pedophile, but that’s okay” levels of cognitive dissociation amidst republican voters. I’m not sure the bar could go any lower that this without Trump directly committing an act of homicide. Even then, it probably wouldn’t budge an inch.
For Trump, bad press is good press, and good press is very very good press.