“One thing those of us who revile Trump have in common with those who adore him: We all understand that he’s unique. It’s the people who don’t see him as unique who have baffled me.” Me too! newrepublic.com/article/1887... - ThreadSky

tribelaw.bsky.social • 99 days ago

“One thing those of us who revile Trump have in common with those who adore him: We all understand that he’s unique.

It’s the people who don’t see him as unique who have baffled me.”

Me too!

https://newrepublic.com/article/188780/anti-trump-resistance-facts-vs-outrage?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily

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terpsichorecmlos.bsky.social•99 days ago

👍🏾👍👍🏼👍🏽👍🏻👍🏿

canuckdogdad.bsky.social•99 days ago

He's not really unique. He's the meat-shield for the elites.

bkshep.bsky.social•99 days ago

Do tell where civil discourse airing anti Trump outrage will move the herd.

banksyfella.bsky.social•99 days ago

No. More outrage is needed - not less.

Logically speaking, if you are outraged by Trumps FASCIST political movement, you must express it.

Failure to do so empowers them.

The intolerant have become intolerable.

ACT LIKE IT.

#Antifa

rxdavid.bsky.social•99 days ago

Some people always have to learn the hard way. 🤷‍♂️

abbykbhomesleak.bsky.social•96 days ago

This is too optomistic. Two rationals not mentioned for undecided voters is that they are dumb & or morally dumb. These same people are NOT going to notice (or care) about all the awful things Trump will do. It was all there in plain sight for eight years and they didn't get it.

cleo59.bsky.social•95 days ago

Unfortunately, I agree with you. I think we tell ourselves a lot of stories so that we don't have to believe that people can be this horrible.

drlauriemccall.bsky.social•99 days ago

Please create and pin a Starter Pack of Bluesky contributors you admire, esp legal theorists.

ifiwasdaking.bsky.social•99 days ago

Sorry. I represent NYC tenants. My adversaries are a whole nutcase army of Trumps. Every landlord of every rent stabilized building is a Trump. They commit fraud regularly, they gaslight, and they all think that bullying is negotiation. Trump is merely the landlord that went into national politics.

sab5331.bsky.social•99 days ago

I couldn't agree more. When you can see him for who he is, it's clear as day. Like when you finally spot Waldo.

https://bsky.app/profile/sab5331.bsky.social/post/3lbrwp4s5ks25

thisaintright.bsky.social•99 days ago

Yeah, time to react, plan, move forward.

kurtrexcooper.bsky.social•99 days ago

Asimov’s “The Mule” is how I see Trump.

somerandomdave.bsky.social•99 days ago

He's not unique, much as Hitler was not unique. The circumstances supported the rise of someone like them, and if it had not been them, it would have been someone sufficiently similar to them. Maybe they wouldn't have the weird mustache, maybe they wouldn't be orange, but similar none the less.

currentideas.bsky.social•99 days ago

What is needed is strategy and a proactive effort to improve the Dems brand

hikerslife.bsky.social•99 days ago

The article says the independent voters have decided to give him a chance. That just tells me they did not pay attention during his 1st term and might be cutting him a break on the pandemic.

Once they feel pain, they will learn their lesson.

octobermystic.bsky.social•99 days ago

I wonder how many of those swing voters, in addition to not seeing him as a unique threat, couldn't bring themselves to vote for a black woman. Maybe she was the unique threat to them? Loathsome but possible?

octobermystic.bsky.social•99 days ago

Loathsome perspective on their part-- to clarify.

mrshamlan.bsky.social•99 days ago

The problem is facts and history were reasons for outrage. The misinformation campaign has been deliberate and effective. The sane washing of a guy who is insane and diabolical is the problem. Unfortunately, a lot of people need to suffer before the brainwashed will see any faults in the lunacy.

janice-r.bsky.social•99 days ago

trump is not really unique. To me he is a grossly exaggerated version of unattractive, ugly and dangerous characteristics that many people possess to a lesser degree coupled with extraordinary power and influence.

marclauritsen.bsky.social•99 days ago

Someone surely has asked a genAI agent to draw an Adoration of the MAGA

joanlingen.bsky.social•99 days ago

Every human being is unique. But I grant you Trump is not built like the rest of us.

pcollirigger.bsky.social•99 days ago

Old school left/Dem warriors have a vested interest in characterizing Trump as a predictable extension of the Reagan, Gingrich, Bush line of Republicans. They have a broader, longer battle against Republicanism while others of us would like to restore basic democracy first.

jencarole.bsky.social•99 days ago

Look folks, if my friend who is extremely smart, voted for Trump, this isn’t about smarts.

There’s something we’re missing. And it’s not identity either because no one else knows how she voted.

If I boil it down, it’s fear.
Irrational fear. That overrides smarts.
👇🏼

jencarole.bsky.social•99 days ago

If I sit with it and think about it more, her fear of two things, losing her hard earned wealth and immigrants, her fears are absolutely unfounded based on who and where she is.

AND her fear if folks finding out who she voted for is palpable. And it is legit.

So she chose the irrational fear. 🤷🏼‍♀️

ohhjim.bsky.social•99 days ago

I believe there is a portion of the voters who honestly don’t know anything about politics and Trump. It’s not that they know how bad he is, and don’t care; they honestly don’t pay attention to him. And that 3% swung the election.

donna30.bsky.social•99 days ago

Yep

bluegila.bsky.social•99 days ago

Unique… as in an anomaly. Or some might say, an abomination...

yllots.bsky.social•99 days ago

Article is optimistic at the end and I have lost my optimism- I was hopeful when they impeached him twice, I was hopeful when they had multiple criminal cases against him and now I think America is not what I once thought it was- I think it is fast heading to be the next Nazi Germany

dmbaker.bsky.social•98 days ago

You're assuming they can be reached with facts. They can't.

davidkeithlaw.bsky.social•99 days ago

Trump has always been transparent, in his fashion.

zingpod.bsky.social•99 days ago

Me too!

justksmith.bsky.social•99 days ago

Yep, conmen are a unique breed

studentsdemocracy.bsky.social•99 days ago

ARE AMERICANS NOW INDENTURED
to NEW OWNERSHIP ??
HAS America been sold
to a small group of well-funded investors who now have
controlling interest and will be governing as an
Ersatz Oligarchy

kimsb.bsky.social•99 days ago

Remember how our country's courageous founders successfully fought and liberated the world from the catastrophic plague of religions, monarchs and dictators who claimed absolute, God-given, patriarchal, social-political-economic power and control?
IT IS OUR TURN NOW ...

pfft2468.bsky.social•99 days ago

Pete Buttigieg is the best spokesperson I’ve seen - able to explain without condescension. Able to take on right wing media. How do we get him out talking to folks 24/7 for the next two years?

twocatfarm1.bsky.social•99 days ago

He’s not unique to his 76M plus supporters (aka cult followers) because he hates the same people they do and gives them all permission to publicly hate others. Trump and his supporters are just all birds of a feather.

jeffreywkramer.bsky.social•99 days ago

More turds of a feather. He is a piece of shit, and they are too.

bertfoxson.bsky.social•99 days ago

These “people” continuously rise as dictators because they are rare and their rises are based on the economics and charisma of the leader from their supporters.

chichi60.bsky.social•99 days ago

He is not unique, just a just a white supremacist with money, that's why his base loves him. He also said he loves the uneducated. That is about half of the country, apparently.

cleo59.bsky.social•95 days ago

I think he means unique in the sense that others have tried to emulate him and failed. They are lacking whatever *special sauce* he has.

overt-inker.bsky.social•99 days ago

Unique threat.

papadontpreach.bsky.social•99 days ago

I saw that more informed voters broke for VP. Sentiment about the economy already changing???

abbyannv.bsky.social•97 days ago

But also - why can’t the Senate confirm all of Biden’s nominees like our lives depend on it.

kristifairchild.bsky.social•99 days ago

Smith has just dismissed the Election Interference case.
All of this is UNCONSTITUTIONAL

SCOTUS was wrong to give full immunity to any person in this country

It is the basis this country was founded on-
NO ONE is above the law

SCOTUS is CORRUPT & the antithesis of legal jurisprudence 🤡👎👺☠️💩

saffship.bsky.social•99 days ago

its clear the techbros (elno in particular) see him as a useful idiot & he plays right into their hands....

klikklak.bsky.social•99 days ago

The Orange Turd is unique, just like Hitler, just like Stalin, just like Mao, just like Pol Pot, just like Pinochet....yep, unique.

javybear.bsky.social•99 days ago

I’m doubtful of the author’s hope for a “vigorous press” that will hold Trump accountable ,will come to fruition, sadly.

jeffreywkramer.bsky.social•99 days ago

We already see mainstream media rushing to rim Adolf the Orange.

michael-iger.bsky.social•99 days ago

Those who support and voted for Trump are not thinkers, but followers. They've bought into a leader and don't question him which is what he's always wanted. We have to coalesce those who think otherwise, and includes inexpedient thinkers and others who didn't vote this time. It's the 1960s again.

forang59.bsky.social•99 days ago

Can I be angry while using facts?.

evolvegracefully.bsky.social•97 days ago

@tribelaw.bsky.social
Laurence, Not so sure of Trump’s uniqueness. He seems to fit all the qualifications of the malignant, narcissist, psychopath, patriarchal rulers….
like a cookie cutter image!
(a last gasp of the Patriarchy)

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