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yesterday I noted he was not

artappraiser — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:25:12 +0000

yesterday I noted he was not very enthused about Georgia:

The president had been expected in GA today but he didn’t feel like going. Now he says he will be there the day before the runoff. https://t.co/KOSa6upFTl
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 20, 2020

FOX NEWS POLL: How do you

artappraiser — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 21:52:06 +0000

In reply to How Trump’s denial, mismanagement & magical thinking led to the pandemic’s dark winter

FOX NEWS POLL: How do you think history will remember Trump's presidency?

22% One of the country's greatest presidents
16% Above average
10% Average
8% Below Average
42% One of the country's worst presidents
— John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) December 20, 2020

Poll taken Dec. 6-9, 2020 among a random national sample of ~1,000 registered voters. Crosstabs on this question below pic.twitter.com/x6ihJ5zXck
— John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) December 20, 2020

excerpt., a reminder of the

artappraiser — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 21:19:28 +0000

In reply to on Trump now:

excerpt., a reminder of the recent "destroy the GOP" movement:

[....] Another group styling itself America First showed up last weekend at the “Stop the steal” rally for Trump in Washington. Its leader, the podcaster Nick Fuentes, who has been banned from YouTube, was a baby-faced veteran of the 2017 white supremacist torch-lit rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. This time he led the crowd in enthusiastic chants of “Destroy the GOP”.

“We’re done making promises,” he said. “It has to happen now. We’re going to destroy the GOP.” The march was also attended by the far-right armed group the Proud Boys, still revelling in Trump’s televised request to it to “stand back and stand by” as the election approached.

Roger Stone, the flamboyant self-described “dirty trickster” and former 2016 campaign aide who was granted clemency by Trump for witness tampering, has become a fixture at these rallies.

At a similar flag-waving protest in Miami last weekend, marchers turned on the Florida senator Marco Rubio, a potential 2024 presidential contender, for not turning up. “Where’s Marco?”, they chanted, despite his carefully calibrated obsequiousness towards Trump.

Stone used his account on Parler — the social media site of choice for those banned from Twitter — to threaten Rubio. “Where is Marco, indeed?” he asked. “A growing number of Florida Republicans are urging me to challenge Marco Rubio in the Republican primary.” He later backed down, saying he was “friendly” with Rubio, though he did not sound very amicable.

It has become a hallmark of Trumpists to snarl at their opponents and then claim they did not mean it or it was a joke. The uncertainty unleashed by this trolling has led many Republican politicians either to join the “Make America great again” crowd or live in fear of the consequences. Trump supporters have the firepower to mount primary challenges that can kill their political careers stone dead, leaving them in a state of nervous apprehension [....]

on Trump now:

artappraiser — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 21:14:18 +0000

In reply to How Trump’s denial, mismanagement & magical thinking led to the pandemic’s dark winter

on Trump now:

Worth a read: "@realDonaldTrump has begun to inhale his own conspiracy theories and has launched an assault on the bastions of the Republican Party standing in his way."@SarahbaxterSTM writes for @thetimes https://t.co/DxvZWRGl1A
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) December 20, 2020

(link was free access for me, thought it wouldn't be)