/lit/ - Literature

>>23029374
>other books owing to liberal hysteria take him as a pseudo-fascist figure too much
You might be right. I see Trump in the main as a grifter. It's Griftonomics. Trump's business model is also expensive. He has to spend big to raise big, and the spending is via P.R., legal fees, to generate media amplification reacting to him and outraged audiences who provide continuous donations and then buy gaudy, overpriced merch and NFTs.

The free media on his legal woes (if presented as "they are coming for you") add a bigger take with marginal expenses on legal fees vs. ads. But if he's losing defamation cases then that flips the model upside down and he will be officially losing money. It's probably better to think of all this as a business which people mistakenly attach a higher calling. Or rather, the business converts stupid terrified people into donors for money which they will never see again. Kind of what you'd expect from the casino/reality show guy, but nothing new to direct marketers, churchy religious groups and NGO fundraisers.

Sell, promise, bullshit. Toss in a dash of doom mongering, conspiracy, and presto. Money flows. Trump is a poor man's idea of what a rich guy should be like, so lack of success or competence is easily blamed on "enemies." The working man's mantra. Problem is if he's losing his business model and his ability to generate ArgueTainment and Faux Outrage that allows his flying monkeys to survive on the monetized grifterNet. I'm talking about the real die-hard Trump fans who buy the merch and drive around the U.S. in schizomobiles covered in bumper stickers and livestreaming 24/7. They need him to fight the new satanic evil which they fund Trump to fight against, but he's screwing them, and they're screwing each other. Eventually it'll unravel and they'll go back to space aliens and diet drugs.

I think more conservatives hate come around to that. When they see Biden out there saluting the dead soldiers (before ordering dozens of air strikes to end lives in the Middle East), they at least believe that Biden believes in what he's doing. I was shocked by this -- but Alex Jones (of all people) is defending Biden striking back at the Quds Force.