This goes to the one thing that puzzles me about Trump supporters. They& #39;re fine with his thuggishness, indeed pleased by it; I get that. They look past his incompetence — well, partisanship is a hell of a drug. But doesn& #39;t it bother them that he& #39;s such a ludicrous figure? 1/ https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1314642646871281666">https://twitter.com/MollyJong...
I mean, trying to make this campaign about Hillary? Proclaiming himself a "perfect physical specimen"? All the boasting and complaining about people out to get him? The orange makeup? Right-wingers idolize tough guys, so why support such a whiner? 2/
Yet there it is. And there are a lot of Trump-like figures on the right — self-absorbed, boastful, yet constantly complaining. I guess there& #39;s something about the psychology here that none of the books I& #39;ve read on the conservative mind seem to explain 3/
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