Ame on Nostr: I maintain that Tucker was a good guy who made some bad decisions and then paid for ...
I maintain that Tucker was a good guy who made some bad decisions and then paid for them. Same as a lot of people.
By 2020, it was clear to the regime that he was the enemy, and the only reason they hadn't gotten rid of him was there would be backlash. Instead, they told him not to press on the election fraud, and to do all sorts of embarrassing acts like that one press conference in order to keep his job. Each of those fractured his base of support somewhat, and there was no advantage to going along with it - they already considered him an enemy, he just weakened his own position and allowed them to do it earlier than they otherwise would have, with less backlash.
The two traps of the right are becoming one of the cuckbox people who waddles around being deliberately edgy and repulsive, then whining when it doesn't get them anywhere, and becoming one of the Substack pseuds who are so obsessed with keeping their shrinking platforms that they deliberately make themselves incapable of serving as a cultural Schelling point.
Whatever people may think of Trump, he's the one man who got out of that dichotomy and withstood the inevitable retaliation for doing so.
By 2020, it was clear to the regime that he was the enemy, and the only reason they hadn't gotten rid of him was there would be backlash. Instead, they told him not to press on the election fraud, and to do all sorts of embarrassing acts like that one press conference in order to keep his job. Each of those fractured his base of support somewhat, and there was no advantage to going along with it - they already considered him an enemy, he just weakened his own position and allowed them to do it earlier than they otherwise would have, with less backlash.
The two traps of the right are becoming one of the cuckbox people who waddles around being deliberately edgy and repulsive, then whining when it doesn't get them anywhere, and becoming one of the Substack pseuds who are so obsessed with keeping their shrinking platforms that they deliberately make themselves incapable of serving as a cultural Schelling point.
Whatever people may think of Trump, he's the one man who got out of that dichotomy and withstood the inevitable retaliation for doing so.