Our daily Normalizing DRUMPF drill. Finding "reason" in his shock; crediting him with "strategy"

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Ancient history. When Shrub-CHEENEE were ginning up their desired Iraq-attack, they tried to get popular support, or in DRUMPF's world making it a "movement". This meant articulating a CONVINCING REASON for it. They tried “9-11” and “Weapons of Mass Destruction” and on and on, each week another “reason” including “Saddam tried to kill my DADDY - wah!”

The desired level of popularity/movement just couldn’t be reached. Of course, my local radio wingnut talkshow host accepted every new one that came down the pike, as he does with all Repuke party lines. But I’ve always credited him that, when all of the “reasons” kept being dud after dud, he came up with one of his own. At least, I *think* it was his since he might have heard it somewhere. And I’ll say that, while it didn’t sway ME to support Shrub-CHEENEE, it *did* sound more convincing to ME just on its surface.

What was the local wingnut's Iraq lesson? That regardless of anything Saddam did or didn’t do, we NEEDED TO KICK SOME ARAB BUTT. Never mind that there were (and are) plenty of more appropriate Arab butts to kick. Oh, no, we would never kick some sacred Saudi butt, you know, the 9-11 crew being almost all Saudis and being funded by Saudi “charities.”

******So apparently, the local wingnut has weaponized his “reason” to a generic, all purpose level, now applying it to excusing/normalizing DRUMPF. Now he says that we should overlook the Dr Strangelove outlandishness and horror of DRUMPF’s most recent (as of yesterday) shooting-off-of-the-mouth (“fire and fury”) on the grounds that:
We need to kick some Kim butt. It don’t matter that DRUMPF’s very existence is a lit firecracker in a barrel of gasoline, not only with N. Korea but all over the world. It just matters that we need to use a 2x4 on Kim.

But along with this, deriving from the 18 months of campaign of “waiting for DRUMPF to CHANGE”, is the media yakkers playing at giving him the benefit of the doubt that he is not JUST SHOOTING HIS FOOL MOUTH OFF, but rather is being CANNILY STRATEGIC, is playing mind games with his opponents.

So here’s the drill we are so sick of:

1- DRUMPF drops some incredible verbal excrement/bomb.
2- We are STUNNED, have never thought this could happen, think NOTHING can possibly be WORSE.
3- By the evening or the next morning, the shock wears off.
4- Then the pundits are peering into his “mind” to credit him with STRATEGIZING.
5- Numbness returns briefly, shock sort of subsides.
6- DRUMPF drops *another* incredible verbal excrement/bomb, MUCH WORSE than the one before!
7- Repeat the other steps.