The defense secretary has floated a White House run with close friends and associates, two people said. And Hegseth sparked speculation with an event in Iowa this month.
I’ve never understood why people think that. Most of what comes out of his mouth makes absolutely no sense. If I was to act completely impartial, and forget everything I know about the monster, listening to him wouldn’t make me think “What a charismatic guy”. He sounds like he’s 2 brain cells away from having a stroke.
Yeah I don’t understand it at all. Dude has the charisma of a used cars salesman (way too confident and energetic) with the eloquence of a toddler and somehow that makes him a demigod to his base ? (and I do have several examples of people I politically and/or personally despise who actually have charisma)
I think you’re 100% correct that it’s used car salesman energy. His base doesn’t understand what he’s saying (because he makes no sense), but they can cherry-pick parts they understood and craft positions that they agree with over them. They hear what they want to in an overly confident energetic way. It’s why they think he “says it like it is,” even though he just vomits words.
That’s giving them too much credit. Between Trump and social media, the shitbags successfully normalized (and commoditized) pride in being a shitbag. Once suffrage for women and “the negro” was normalized, there was a certain line that was toed in public. If you crossed that line all your fellow shitbags would distance themselves to avoid the blast radius of press coverage and public outrage. Politicians were notorious for this.
Fast forward to today. Trump is a shitty person in power who can be as shitty as he wants with no consequences. His party runs on grievance politics rooted in long simmering resentment. His very existence unites them because he is crass, uncultured, uneducated, and untouchable. Their role model is nothing but grievances, croneyism, financial fraud, and kid diddling. The first is the only thing that matters. The second and third are hand waved as his right for being successful. The kid diddling is being repeatedly buried in the press cycle because it’s one of the few things that can still unite the country and turn you into a pariah.
A lot of the rural Trump voters I know had made being uneducated a key pillar of their personal identity even before 2015. Those are the people who think he’s a charismatic speaker.
The urban and suburban ones held their noses and voted for him because “at least he’s not a Godless Democrat.” They don’t listen to what he says, but they vote for him anyway.
I’ve never understood why people think that. Most of what comes out of his mouth makes absolutely no sense. If I was to act completely impartial, and forget everything I know about the monster, listening to him wouldn’t make me think “What a charismatic guy”. He sounds like he’s 2 brain cells away from having a stroke.
Yeah I don’t understand it at all. Dude has the charisma of a used cars salesman (way too confident and energetic) with the eloquence of a toddler and somehow that makes him a demigod to his base ? (and I do have several examples of people I politically and/or personally despise who actually have charisma)
I think you’re 100% correct that it’s used car salesman energy. His base doesn’t understand what he’s saying (because he makes no sense), but they can cherry-pick parts they understood and craft positions that they agree with over them. They hear what they want to in an overly confident energetic way. It’s why they think he “says it like it is,” even though he just vomits words.
That’s giving them too much credit. Between Trump and social media, the shitbags successfully normalized (and commoditized) pride in being a shitbag. Once suffrage for women and “the negro” was normalized, there was a certain line that was toed in public. If you crossed that line all your fellow shitbags would distance themselves to avoid the blast radius of press coverage and public outrage. Politicians were notorious for this.
Fast forward to today. Trump is a shitty person in power who can be as shitty as he wants with no consequences. His party runs on grievance politics rooted in long simmering resentment. His very existence unites them because he is crass, uncultured, uneducated, and untouchable. Their role model is nothing but grievances, croneyism, financial fraud, and kid diddling. The first is the only thing that matters. The second and third are hand waved as his right for being successful. The kid diddling is being repeatedly buried in the press cycle because it’s one of the few things that can still unite the country and turn you into a pariah.
A lot of the rural Trump voters I know had made being uneducated a key pillar of their personal identity even before 2015. Those are the people who think he’s a charismatic speaker.
The urban and suburban ones held their noses and voted for him because “at least he’s not a Godless Democrat.” They don’t listen to what he says, but they vote for him anyway.
Yes, now it’s absolute nonsense, but back in 2016 and earlier he was a lot more coherent, and the racists ate it up.