• Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    He is the dumbass face of it all, but he serves his purpose for the really smart bastards in the party who know full well what they’re doing when they push his buttons, send him out to rile up his (their) base, and unleash him and them on all of us.

    The core of the Republican party isn’t the blustering dumbass out front, it’s the fascism machine at the heart of Project 2025 and all the rest of it pulling his strings. Trump is a useful idiot to very smart people doing very bad things, and we should all be appropriately worried and alert.

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      3 months ago

      Ohh, I fully agree, but I also think that Trump’s mental capacity has decayed so much that he couldn’t stay on script for more than 2 minutes if he were left without his handlers. That’s why I doubt this interview was part of some grand plan to get out of the debate.