I think it was this one : https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...-really-hard-to-get-rid-of-a-populist/616551/ The United States is not unique in tolerating a populist president for so long. But it might prove itself exceptional in November: If polls prove accurate, America will be among the rare major democracies in recent memory to throw a populist out of office at the end of his first term. Populist presidents and prime ministers, on average, stay in office twice as long as nonpopulist ones: six and a half years compared with three. This discrepancy becomes especially striking when you examine governments that have been in office for more than 10 years. A populist president or prime minister is five times as likely to remain in office after a decade as a nonpopulist one. We also found few examples of populists who lost power after just one term. As countries such as Hungary and Turkey demonstrate, voters tend not to recognize their mistake until populist leaders have done serious damage to democratic institutions. Even when many pundits have long since counted them out, populists have tended to win reelection. The international context, moreover, also shows that those few populists who don’t get reelected for a second term tend to retain a significant and damaging presence in their country’s politics.
If the playbook works... Same lie was being pushed about how Obama was going to take away everyone's guns. He didn't, of course, but people chose to believe it anyway. The lie led to a nice sales spike for guns. So yeah, they are effective, non-verifiable lies. Even though there's no actual evidence of it, Trump can always say "even if he doesn't SAY it, he's THINKING it!".
This is what the President wants.... ideally they break in and destroy the ballots. Trump has the cult of personality. I thought it was the democrats that were supposed to be rioting?
And how do you do that exactly? Start dog whistling and lying to them? I just had a person claiming Biden wanted to take away the 2nd amendment and oil. How do you convince that person to ever vote for Biden? Yeah we should blame that person.
Why aren't these people all arrested? They are trying to interfere with the counting and election and destroy ballots. That is a textbook offence, a CRIME.
Looks like the fat lady is close to singing. Trump should gain whatever dignity he has completely lost in the last 4 years and concede.
