He's an incompetent narcissist... who somehow dumb lucked himself into a successful real estate business, a top-viewed tv show, and the presidency.
Flawed, sure, but people wish that he's Forest Gump because that makes them feel better. Trump is an existential proof that some of their beliefs are wrong - unless he didn't do the things intentionally, like the posturing he does.
Without the Operation Warp Speed "mistake" Pfizer would have made their vaccine anyway (they didn't take the money). Fauci could operate an illegal gain of function program, he could certainly have gotten trials for it. Remember how they announced the vaccines 3 days after the election to keep Trump from getting credit? They would have announced it weeks before and said he was against this life saving vaccine. No way Trump got reelected being against the vaccine; not doing OWS was a guaranteed loss.
And so now you say he should be against the vaccine, but this is again posturing and the people too obtuse to understand that almost all are in favor of the vaccine because they are too dumb to find out different. He's forcing the left to either give him credit or prove the vaccine is bad, both of which benefit him, whereas downplaying warp speed shows weakness and for those who still believe it's good gives away credit for nothing.
Saying he saved millions is like saying he had the biggest inauguration crowd. The point was never the actual crowd size.
This is a pathetic attempt to reframe his constant vax peddling as muh "4d chess".
I am truly sorry that you feel that you need to make these excuses to prop up a 2024 run for an incompetent arrogant narcissist who only cares about himself.
You need to understand that the conditions of 2016 are nothing like the current conditions of today.
The crucial combination of necessary factors that led to that single win are completely gone and they won't be coming back.
2016 was never about any 4d chess.
That election was a unique moment in time where populism was the mood of the slight majority of the entire electorate.
Trump was able to capitalize on the key issues of tackling the immigration crisis, stopping free trade gutting the rust belt and he made the case that the Supreme Court balance was on the line too.
Moderate Rs and enough Independent voters were both willing to give Trump a chance in the hope that he would solve issues and become more "Presidential" if elected.
Sadly, we all know how that turned out by 2020.
Moderate Rs and most independents now completely loathe him. He has also lost his outsider populist cred after we see the people that he promoted and endorsed.
He has an actual track record that can be strongly used against him now.
If you are trying to make a case for the potential success of Trump 2024 using the success of Trump 2016 then you are doing the political equivalent of trying to compare apples to oranges.
Eight years is an eternity in politics.
Trump is not the same man and the political landscape has drastically changed.
Trump might be able to win the 2024 primary if enough of the base is stupid enough to anoint him again but he will never win a general election again.
He may have been more coherent, tailoring his administration to his policies, were it not for the constant attacks from permanent alphabet agency bureaucrats and the press who breathlessly published every leak and beat our collective ears incessantly with the campaign of lies about Russia and the "insurrection" and the fruitless impeachments.
It's remarkable he was able to accomplish what he did under those conditions, and I have to wonder what level of vitriol he'd face in a second term.
The crucial combination of necessary factors that led to that single win are completely gone and they won't be coming back. ... That election was a unique moment in time ... 2016 was never about any 4d chess.
Of course 2016 was about "4d chess" meaning that Trump time after time got the media to take contrary positions that benefitted him - this is where the term came from. You're still arguing the Forest Gump theory that he just stumbled into office; it was just a lucky situation not skill.
If you are trying to make a case for the potential success of Trump 2024 using the success of Trump 2016 then you are doing the political equivalent of trying to compare apples to oranges.
The point I am making is that you are divorcing yourself from reality because you have views that are contrary to it. Saying he saved millions forces the left to give him credit or trash the vaccine - that's the reality, regardless of whether he's posturing or actually believes it. You can't handle that for some reason so you say it's imagined 4d chess, and 4d chess is stupid, so therefore Trump is stupid and can't win - that's basically your position here right?
Your argument for Trump being a sure loss is the same as your explanation for a 2024 win. If he wins it'll just be a confluence of lucky events, and he'll lose because there's not a confluence this time. Just rationalization, no real argument at all.
He's an incompetent narcissist... who somehow dumb lucked himself into a successful real estate business, a top-viewed tv show, and the presidency.
Flawed, sure, but people wish that he's Forest Gump because that makes them feel better. Trump is an existential proof that some of their beliefs are wrong - unless he didn't do the things intentionally, like the posturing he does.
Without the Operation Warp Speed "mistake" Pfizer would have made their vaccine anyway (they didn't take the money). Fauci could operate an illegal gain of function program, he could certainly have gotten trials for it. Remember how they announced the vaccines 3 days after the election to keep Trump from getting credit? They would have announced it weeks before and said he was against this life saving vaccine. No way Trump got reelected being against the vaccine; not doing OWS was a guaranteed loss.
And so now you say he should be against the vaccine, but this is again posturing and the people too obtuse to understand that almost all are in favor of the vaccine because they are too dumb to find out different. He's forcing the left to either give him credit or prove the vaccine is bad, both of which benefit him, whereas downplaying warp speed shows weakness and for those who still believe it's good gives away credit for nothing.
Saying he saved millions is like saying he had the biggest inauguration crowd. The point was never the actual crowd size.
This is a pathetic attempt to reframe his constant vax peddling as muh "4d chess".
I am truly sorry that you feel that you need to make these excuses to prop up a 2024 run for an incompetent arrogant narcissist who only cares about himself.
It's pathetic to believe everything is 4d chess, and also pathetic to believe none of it is.
Trump didn't Forest Gump his way into these successes, but that's clearly what you choose to believe because reality isn't what you wish it were.
You need to understand that the conditions of 2016 are nothing like the current conditions of today.
The crucial combination of necessary factors that led to that single win are completely gone and they won't be coming back.
2016 was never about any 4d chess.
That election was a unique moment in time where populism was the mood of the slight majority of the entire electorate.
Trump was able to capitalize on the key issues of tackling the immigration crisis, stopping free trade gutting the rust belt and he made the case that the Supreme Court balance was on the line too.
Moderate Rs and enough Independent voters were both willing to give Trump a chance in the hope that he would solve issues and become more "Presidential" if elected.
Sadly, we all know how that turned out by 2020.
Moderate Rs and most independents now completely loathe him. He has also lost his outsider populist cred after we see the people that he promoted and endorsed.
He has an actual track record that can be strongly used against him now.
If you are trying to make a case for the potential success of Trump 2024 using the success of Trump 2016 then you are doing the political equivalent of trying to compare apples to oranges.
Eight years is an eternity in politics.
Trump is not the same man and the political landscape has drastically changed.
Trump might be able to win the 2024 primary if enough of the base is stupid enough to anoint him again but he will never win a general election again.
He may have been more coherent, tailoring his administration to his policies, were it not for the constant attacks from permanent alphabet agency bureaucrats and the press who breathlessly published every leak and beat our collective ears incessantly with the campaign of lies about Russia and the "insurrection" and the fruitless impeachments.
It's remarkable he was able to accomplish what he did under those conditions, and I have to wonder what level of vitriol he'd face in a second term.
Of course 2016 was about "4d chess" meaning that Trump time after time got the media to take contrary positions that benefitted him - this is where the term came from. You're still arguing the Forest Gump theory that he just stumbled into office; it was just a lucky situation not skill.
The point I am making is that you are divorcing yourself from reality because you have views that are contrary to it. Saying he saved millions forces the left to give him credit or trash the vaccine - that's the reality, regardless of whether he's posturing or actually believes it. You can't handle that for some reason so you say it's imagined 4d chess, and 4d chess is stupid, so therefore Trump is stupid and can't win - that's basically your position here right?
Your argument for Trump being a sure loss is the same as your explanation for a 2024 win. If he wins it'll just be a confluence of lucky events, and he'll lose because there's not a confluence this time. Just rationalization, no real argument at all.