Donald Trump is the President Mark IV (Read Mod Warning in OP)

gimli2112 wrote: »

Why do his advisers let him do stuff like this, is it that they just can't stop him or is it really that it doesn't affect his support. Surely a fair minded person has to look at this and think "errrrr?"

Because he's a fascist demagogue who works on the basis of physical intimidation and power of charisma that the worst fascist dictators tend to have, and yes, I am referring to that fascist dictator, the Austrian chap with the moustache.

It's the same reason why the press corps act like doormats in his presence - because they're utterly cowed and likely physically shaking in his presence.

Everything Trump does is designed to physically intimidate.

He's an absolute thug.

Igotadose wrote: »

Do you think the 'sniffing' thing that he also did during the debates with HRC is part of the intimidation? I heard it again during the presser, deep nasal breaths.

Plus the fecker never once looks happy. Not once. Grimacing, scowling, looking pained in his ill-fitting suit, and having difficulty walking down the few stairs to the podium. What's with the raccoon eyes and the orange skin? Is there a tanning bed on Air Force 1?

So much to digest here, he was all over the place and I'm sure the 'Trump lie-o-meters' are pegged to the top. Thousands of MS-13 removed? Suuuuure.

Glad one of the reporter's mentioned Jon Tester winning. Be great if AZ went with the Democratic candidate, too. Lots of early ballots to be counted there, might bode well for the Democratic party.

Of course it was.

Trump's whole schtick is to appeal to people's inner bully. You can't successfully promote a fascistic, cult-like mob mentality in your followers without projecting yourself as an all powerful, infallible, omnipotent leader yourself.

That's how fascism works.

The intimidation, the interruptions, the constant lies, the constant personal attacks, the projection, the pre-emptive, barefaced lying to turn around the worst things he's guilty of onto his opponents, the making others doubt themselves due to the constant lies and intimidation, the attempts to make others fall into a trap of hopelessness where they start to think that resistance is futile and they fall silent.

He uses exactly the same techniques Hitler and Stalin did to cow people down.

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passsionate intensity."