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June 3, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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Understanding the Political Genius of Trump
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The Donald Trump you should know is enigmatic, truculent, sophomoric, jejun, puerile, belligerent, combative, disjointed, a seemingly endless font of non-sequiturs, brilliant, targeted, poignant.
Absolutely vicious.
Incredibly sentient.
Sapient.
Targeted.
Everything you can imagine.
Everything you can imagine and more.
Good.
Bad.
So-so.
Enigmatic.
Sui generis.
One of a kind.
Like nothing else.
Nonpareil.
There is no one else.
I would venture to say, you don't know anyone.
Forget politics.
Forget the political hustings.
You will never know anybody like him ever.
And that's the problem.
That's the problem.
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I have been, concomitantly, simultaneously, the worst detractor, the worst...
Opponent?
And the biggest, sometimes seemingly sycophantic, bootlicker and lickspittle, when it comes to Donald Trump, there is.
Period.
And the reason why is because he is protean.
He shifts.
He goes from one thing to another.
And just when you figure it out, just when you think you figured him out, just when you say, okay, I've got it, he changes.
And every time, He does something different.
You say now what you said in 2015, 2016.
You can't do this, anyone.
You can't say this, anyone.
You can't act like this.
You can't tweet this.
You can't be Donald Trump.
And the electorate said, yes, you can.
But the issue, the issue is going to be, have times changed?
Is this 2016?
Is this a different time?
Is that it?
Was there just something so strange then?
Were the satellites aligned, or the satellites, the planets aligned in such a way?
Was Mercury in retrograde that allowed this particular truculence, this petulance and impudence, this impertinent Donald Trump to be elevated to the status of superstar?
Is that it?
Is that how it works?
I don't know.
You tell me.
How does this work?
How does this work?
Because the more you...
The more you analyze this, the more complicated it gets.
It's like quicksand.
The more you try to dig yourself out, the more you find yourself in this vortex, this miasma, this mess.
It's fascinating.
And then you say, but is Ron DeSantis different?
Is Ron DeSantis different?
Is this pro-DeSantis momentum, is it truly because Ron DeSantis is great?
Or is it an anti-Trump movement?
Ron DeSantis does not in any way possess anything remotely exciting.
Now, I'm not necessarily suggesting that you have to be exciting to be a president.
It helps tremendously.
But I'm not suggesting you do.
What I am suggesting, what I am saying, is that when that first...
And there will be one.
That first debate happens.
And I don't know the number.
And Trump has not always been great in debates.
But when he's been on, there's nothing like it.
He does things that only Trump can do.
He says things that only Trump can say.
He does things that, frankly, we have never seen before in the history of American politics.
There was a time when there was a certain degree of, I'll say it, style and panache, and we thought Jimmy Carter was some rube, some rusticator, some hayseed, some podunk, barnyard, feeb from Plains, the peanut farmer in that demented family of his, like Billy.
Now we got Hunter, but we had Billy.
Billy seems like Edward Witten compared to Hunter Biden.
But I digress.
But there was this time when we thought the presidents acted in a particular way.
We thought that they just did these things.
They acted in these ways.
They comported.
And we always say, Trump doesn't do that.
Let me ask you this question.
Does the American public care?
But the real question is, will this traverse, will this break the blood-brain barrier?
Look, let's face it, and let's stop pretending.
Joe Biden is not going to be the 2024 nominee.
It's going to be Gavin Newsom.
It's not going to be Carmelita Harris as VP.
It'll probably be, from what I'm hearing, Gretchen Whitmer.
Okay, whatever.
You're not going to see them ever go towards this daft, goofy, experimental, dimwit experiment again.
That's not going to happen.
And for the Democrats to win, they're going to have to deal both with this woke, demented kind of a policy and add some kind of, I don't know, worldview.
But that's for the Democrats.
But when it comes to Trump, if by the greatest stretch of the imagination Donald Trump somehow gets the nomination, will he be able to poach voters from the left?
Grab?
And convince the undecideds and the independent voters?
Keep in mind something.
I made a couple of notations here.
In 1975, when Democrats were vying for who their nominee would be, Humphrey was at 30% at one particular point.
George Wallace.
Wallace was at 20, with Jimmy Carter pulling less than 5 points.
George Wallace.
With Curtis LeMay as his running mate in one instance, in 2008, Hillary was at 48 points, Obama 21. And interestingly, I found this interesting, in 2007, Rudy Giuliani was at 24 points, with John McCain at 17. So, these numbers, historically, mean nothing.
These numbers mean nothing.
But they really mean nothing if you don't, Understand Donald Trump.
He is a breed.
He is a type.
A phenom.
He is a phenotype.
A political version that we don't know.
We've never seen before.
And when you try to apply the usual rudiments of stock, rote, A usual, academic, dare I say, hoary, H-O-A-R-Y, and used, concretized labeling to Donald Trump, you lose every single time.
Be not mistaken.
You have to understand Donald Trump.
You have to understand him.
Don't agree.
Don't countenance.
Don't disagree.
Don't reject.
Don't accept.
Don't love.
Don't hate.
Just understand him.
Like you would, dare I say, a breed of dog.
Like you would understand a particular behavior.
Think of it as a cephalogical ethology.
The study of animal behavior slash solidus.
Think about this.
I know Trump.
I know what he's capable of doing.
It doesn't mean I agree with it.
But in terms of the personality type, in terms of the actual person, the politician, and what he can do, and how he can exact, how he can inspire absolute, almost demented idolatry.
Praise this cult-like magnetism that he possesses.
People who watch him do a two-hour, note-free, extemporaneous rally viewed by people who waited 24 hours just to see him, just to touch the hem of his cloak.
Good luck trying to pigeonhole him.
Good luck trying to draw any kind of comparison.
What?
Who comes close?
Reagan?
I don't think so.
Bill Clinton?
Don't make me laugh.
I know what you're thinking.
John Tyler.
But that's another story.
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