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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
There's some results-oriented thinking wrt Putin. If Trump loses, nobody sees Putin as some kind of tactical genius. Instead, we see him as a guy so desperate to destroy America that he latched onto Donald Trump. I don't think we necessarily see him as some kind of idiot but as somebody who tried and failed to crush democracy in America. It's something he's tried to do to other countries with varying degrees of success.
It's kind of like throwing a Hail Mary pass in order to score the game-winning points in the Super Bowl. If you don't complete the pass, oh well you weren't expected to anyway. So it's no big deal. But if you do, all of a sudden you're the greatest QB ever because you led a team to victory in the biggest game of the year when the chances of winning were almost zero.
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What I wonder is what our response would be if Trump lost. Would we thump our chest about how strong and powerful American democracy is? Or would we be concerned about the fragility of it and take the threat of subversion seriously?
trump losing would have led to him stirring tons of **** for the rest of his life continuing to parrot putin talking points about america: the president is illegitimate, the elections are rigged, your votes don't matter, the president is a criminal and should be in jail, you second amendment people know what to do, etc. he was setting up to start an alternative news network focused on attacking president hillary clinton and he would have had millions of viewers/listeners.
he might not have been AS damaging to the country if he lost, but he definitely was setting himself up to try