"In so doing, he is stirring the public out of an apathy that is essential to any power grab. Someone once remarked that Trump's incompetence outruns his malevolence. That observation's salience is on full display."

and

"The legitimate fear is that Trump will rig the US midterm elections this November to stop a widely forecast Republican defeat.

But he is robbing himself of the means to get away with it. The meta-tool available to him is public gullibility.

Enough people must be willing to believe that ballot boxes are being stuffed, or illegal immigrants are being bussed to the polling booths, for any shenanigans to work.

The hollow people working for him are wrecking that tool with easily discredited propaganda."

more at the link'

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Of course, none of Trump's LIES are easily discredited to his Cult... fortunately, they aren't anywhere near a majority, and swing voters plus patriotic Lincoln Project Republicans aren't so easily fooled.

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