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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]is it just me or is anyone else getting a bit worried at the direction this campaign is going?  I keep waiting for the kill shot on Trump and it doesn't seem to be coming.[/quote]

The problem is that you are thinking in pre-Trump era days.  There have been many kill shots.  The MAGA don't care.  They deny that any of these are true and that any of them are problems and they just keep pushing for their corrupt, criminal candidate to be the only solution to our problems.  The problem is that Trump has collected a number of pressing Conservative issues under his umbrella including ones that previously had been ignored and so he now has those extra supporters under his wing.

He has shown that he believes in two tiered bigotry a la the 1950's whereby white males have an extra level of privilege.  He has shown that he approves of violence to intimidate and progress his platform.  So the white males that are bullies who have been ostracized for decades now feel empowered by him.  People like the Proud Boys, the Oathkeepers, and many others, had previously written off voting and dealing in politics.  Unite the Right and other white supremacists and neo-Nazis had been outcast and did not participate in politics.  But since 2016, they have been empowered and heard because Trump continually uses vague signalling to them.  You wonder where so many new voters popped out of the woodwork for Trump in 2020?  These are the types that have flocked to the MAGA banners.  And because he is the only politician to have ever given them any heed, they are devoted to him like lemmings and will willingly jump off the cliff for him.  There are also ultra-Conservative evangelical Christians, and the violent gun advocates and many other fringe groups.  He has survived politically by gathering all the political outcasts under his banner and they are so devoted to him because no one else would ever include them, so they have to support him.

So, his supporters don't care that he been convicted of a felony or that a civil court has said that he is a guilty rapist.  They don't care that he's made the US the laughing stock of the first world and that he associates with dictators and authoritarians.  They don't care that he is a serial liar, cheater, adulterer, and that he violates so many Christian doctrines as to have his own circle of H*ll just for him and his followers.  No one else would ever have these political outcasts, so they come out for him and will follow him right over the cliff.  When Trump is finally out of politics, it's a good bet that a significant number of the political outcasts will drop out of politics again unless there is someone other political lunatic who will embrace those fringe groups.  But, so far, even among the Freedom Caucus, there doesn't seem to be anyone who is as skilled as Trump at vague signalling to the groups that he agrees and supports them, while couching it in terms that he can publicly deny haveing shown said agreement and support.  It takes a real talent to be so boldly two-faced and credible to both the fringe and the media.
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