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babylonsister

(171,070 posts) Fri Mar 29, 2024, 07:04 AM Mar 29

Trump Needs His MAGA Followers to Believe America Is Screwed

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-needs-his-maga-followers-to-believe-america-is-screwed?ref=home

Trump Needs His MAGA Followers to Believe America Is Screwed
DONALD’S DOOMSAYERS
Nothing triggers a Trumpist quite like saying, “America is actually doing great.”
Matt Lewis
Senior Columnist
Published Mar. 29, 2024 4:52AM EDT

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Of course, nobody on Team Trump wants to talk about positive developments. MAGA needs to push doom-and-gloom to win. And absent any tangible problems, they’ll invent some.

Case in point: the forever wars that Grenell apparently thinks we are fighting. Now, I’m old enough to remember the Vietnam syndrome hangover, and (much more vividly) the disastrous days of the Iraq War. But as I noted, factually, America is not currently in three wars.

The MAGA line, which Grenell dutifully delivered, is that by lifting U.N. sanctions on Iran Biden is responsible for Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel, and by waiving sanctions on a Russian company overseeing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline Biden invited Russia’s attack on Ukraine. (Note: I’m still not sure what Grenell’s third war is, but in response to one of my tweets, he invoked Lebanon and Yemen.)

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But this is all a distraction. MAGA (Make America Great Again) isn’t just a message on a red hat, it’s a mantra. And to acknowledge the ways America is currently great (and improving!) is to admit that the country does not, in fact, need a fulminating strongman like Trump to save us from the ashes of our once proud homeland.

As I have learned, saying something like “It’s great to be alive and in America right now” constitutes fighting words. That’s because Donald Trump needs his MAGA followers to believe America is screwed. The danger, of course, is that this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Beatings will continue until morale falls even lower.

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Trump Needs His MAGA Followers to Believe America Is Screwed (Original Post) babylonsister Mar 29 OP

Because he alone can fix it. sop Mar 29 #1

😆 SARose Mar 29 #2

Nailed it Evolve Dammit Mar 29 #3

In my 50+ years this has been a recurring theme Cosmocat Mar 29 #4

Yep. Amazing that on Day 2 of TFG's taking on the presidency, all of a sudden we ha the strongest, best, most capable.. machoneman Mar 29 #5

Gas was nice and cheap during COVID, with far less people driving IronLionZion Mar 29 #6

My s-i-l travels often. Marthe48 Mar 29 #7

Classic chicken and egg NanaCat Mar 29 #8

sop

(10,192 posts)

1. Because he alone can fix it.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Mar 29, 2024, 07:21 AM

Mar 29

SARose

(247 posts)

2. 😆

Reply to sop (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 29, 2024, 07:51 AM

Mar 29

The stable genius who makes up the best words out of thin air.

Evolve Dammit

(16,736 posts)

3. Nailed it

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Mar 29, 2024, 12:40 PM

Mar 29

Cosmocat

(14,565 posts)

4. In my 50+ years this has been a recurring theme

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Mar 29, 2024, 12:50 PM

Mar 29

When Jimmy Carter was POTUS, the world was falling apart.
When Reagen was POTUS - HAPPPY DAYS!
When Clinton was president, despite the country doing well in nearly every way, they were losing their minds.
He got elected basically to shut them up, bit Bush II fell asleep at the wheel for 9-11. and somehow it was common belief that he kept the country safe.
For no real particular reason when BHO was POTUS they once again were losing their minds, including making his signing THEIR health care reform into law as the greatest threat ever to american democracy.
Things were a never ending $hit show when 45 was in office, but HE made the economy great.

They have ALWAYS driven the national narrative, and the country ALWAYS indulges their lunacy.

World ending when a D is POTUS, everything is great when an R is president.

machoneman

(4,007 posts)

5. Yep. Amazing that on Day 2 of TFG's taking on the presidency, all of a sudden we ha the strongest, best, most capable..

Reply to Cosmocat (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 29, 2024, 01:00 PM

Mar 29

...military of all time. Yet, when he left office, Day 2 after leaving he claimed Joe destroyed the military and degraded all that TFG did...virtually overnight! .

Amazing, huh?

IronLionZion

(45,450 posts)

6. Gas was nice and cheap during COVID, with far less people driving

Reply to Cosmocat (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 29, 2024, 01:08 PM

Mar 29

They claimed a lot of the COVID era supply shortages were a dry run for socialism...while Trump was president.

Marthe48

(16,974 posts)

7. My s-i-l travels often.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Mar 29, 2024, 02:37 PM

Mar 29

He mentioned that when he's staying somewhere, the restaurants are packed, with a line out the door. Locally, in this small Ohio town, the stores, restaurants and other businesses are always busy. No one likes paying the high prices, but they do like to spend money!

NanaCat

(1,161 posts)

8. Classic chicken and egg

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Mar 29, 2024, 02:41 PM

Mar 29

Does he need them to believe it? Or did he notice they already believe it and preys on it?

Hm. I'll go with...

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