The thing is, his little army on echo-chamber TS is only a small fraction of voters. I call TS the “Q Quackhouse”.* It’s infested with Q followers, even worse than FR.
The Q followers will vote for him no matter what he does or doesn’t do, will make excuses for him ‘til Kingdom Come. Yet he patronizes them. They’ll follow him over a cliff like the lemmings they are. So why alienate voters he needs by catering to them? Seems to me, it’s just to feed his ego.
If Trump thinks his pitiful Q Quackhouse TS is his real source of power ... well, Heaven help the poor man. It’s just a tiny segment of the voter population and a much ridiculed one. But Trump adulation certainly abounds there!
*Guess I had a very minor moment of infamy on a lib blog after coining that term back when:
I may have worded it poorly in that post, but I’ve said many times before and believe it’s the “mean tweets” that are his true source of power. Truth social just ensures he’s able to send them out, where they’re then amplified 1,000x by other sources.
The mean tweets give his legion of supporters everywhere the impression he is “fighting” for them, when in reality the tough talk is about all he ever really does.
That impression is crucial, because whenever you try to point out the plethora of ridiculously bad things Trump has done, all they ever come back with is, “yeah, true, but he’s such a fighter!”
But mean tweets aren’t really fighting, they have no real weight whatsoever. A good example is how Trump was beating his chest on his website about Rihanna, when the truth is her simple cease and desist letter had gotten action when it counted - forcing Trump to stop playing her music at his rallies.
Oh but they don’t care about that. Not the hypocrisy of calling her talentless while playing her music at his rallies, or how he gave in to her simple letter, no, none of that matters. That he posted something mean on the internet about her later, is what counts to them, apparently. It shows his amazing power, and how he’s a fighter! /S