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Paratroopa1 posted...

To be honest, I'm a little surprised by the strong reactions people are having to the Axios piece - it seems like such bog standard Trump to me, he's almost surprisingly lucid if anything

I saw it put this way: the remarkable thing is that Swan is actually taking the ridiculous things Trump says seriously and calling them out as bullshit (as he should be) instead of dismissing them as "Trump being Trump" like a huge fraction of the media does all of the time.

I think that some of the force field that Trump has is due to the media treating the fact that he is a legitimately horrendously incompetent and sociopathic individual as old news that everybody knows, and that gives something of a permission structure to his supporters (if it really was as bad as his detractors say it is, after all, surely nobody would be treating it like it was normal!)

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