Posted on 07/13/2024 11:40:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Donald Trump will arrive at the 2024 Republican convention — his Republican convention, finally and completely, without the dissent of 2016 or the pandemic that overshadowed 2020 — closer than ever to a second term. But the likelihood of a Trump restoration has not yet brought clarity about what it would actually usher in.
With Trump there is always the whipsaw, the forays toward normalcy and the reversion to a darker mean. Asked on the debate stage whether he would spend a second term seeking revenge on his political enemies, he promised that “my retribution is going to be success. We’re going to make this country successful again.” A few days later, he was on Truth Social, amplifying a post demanding a military tribunal for Liz Cheney.
With Trump, too, there is always the question of how his policy impulses interact with his personal laziness. He recently made a big show of repudiating Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation blueprint stuffed with severely conservative proposals, and then he produced a Republican Party platform stripped of some gun-rights and pro-life language and pledging to protect Medicare and Social Security from any kind of cuts. Are these signs that Trump knows he can just roll over conservative activist groups in pursuit of popularity? Or are they meaningless gestures, because personnel is policy and he’s going to hire all the guys who worked on Project 2025?
There’s no singular Trumpism whose workings we can confidently predict. Instead there are Trumpist scenarios and Trumpian personae — whose interactions, if he wins, will give his second term its shape.
First, there is Trump the moderate...
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Racist dog whistle.
I have never seen a dark side of Trump.
Ross needs to go back to contemplating the seam in Obama’s pants. His “analysis” is useless
Lol.Trump is more likely to put Cheney in his administration than in a military tribunal.
I won’t read any analysis of Trump from the NYT.
the whipsaw, the forays toward normalcy and the reversion to a darker mean.
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I guess this is the kind of thing you have to say when you’re a kept conservative at the NYT.
Severely?
No bias there.
It’s hilarious. totally unhinged.
Does anyone have the unpaywalled link?
Cutting Medicare and Social Security I can get behind. I know Trump wanted the platform to respect Dobbs, but what did he change in it about gun rights?
Echoes of Willard Romney claiming to be "severely conservative."
The rest of the "Asshat" /jk keyword, sorted:
The NYT must have sent a memo to their staff.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4250883/posts
“he will appoint his Trumpiest people and pursue his Trumpiest instincts.”
And this current thread
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4250951/posts
“Instead there are Trumpist scenarios and Trumpian personae “
Have a great Trumpiest, Trumpian, Trumppity, Trump day!!!
I’d bet it is. We’re up against some real wackos.
It is against the consent decree to post it, but you could go to archive.today and figure it out.
“But the likelihood of a Trump restoration has not yet brought clarity about what it would actually usher in.”
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Oh yes it has (brought clarity). He is going to be a dictator, imprisoning all Dimocrats, and will never resign. That’s what the MSM has assured us. Trump is going to reign like Hitler.
I was just saying that because I see on many threads someone posts some link.
FYI, Douthat is the “conservative” editorialist at the NYT. He replaced Bill Kristol in that position.
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