"If the strategy [of lying] isn’t brilliant, though, and if he has evidence that it in fact lost him an election, why return to it again and again?
I think the answer is that disasters can be a major spur to solidarity and unity—and Trump, as an instinctual gutter fascist, loathes solidarity, and rejects it even when it could plausibly be used to his advantage."
~ Noah Berlatsky
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