• blady_blah@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    It’s right out of Trump’s playbook. You do something outrageous and evil, with just a smidgen of deniability… it gets them attention. That’s what they crave, to lead the news cycle, to be hated by the left but maintain enough deniability that the center and right will still be on your side. This is Trump 101.

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      3 hours ago

      That is the fascist playbook. Testing the water to see what you can get away with now while normalising new levels of evil.