I confess to back pedaling into Trump territory when I wanted to leave discussions about him in the garbage can. My thread on the read-only break room site has 9,600 replies so I thought I'd bring up a new one.
He's not going away.
Haberman's book is out based on interviews. I won't read it, but the excerpts are interesting. Especially what he says about McConnell, a description that's against the Terms of Service here, but I actually don't disagree with. LOL
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“At one point, Trump made a candid admission that was as jarring as it was ultimately unsurprising. ‘The question I get asked more than any other question: “If you had it to do again, would you have done it?”’Trump said of running for president. ‘The answer is, yeah, I think so. Because here’s the way I look at it. I have so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are.’ … Reflecting on the meaning of having been president of the United States, his first impulse was not to mention public service, or what he felt he’d accomplished, only that it appeared to be a vehicle for fame, and that many experiences were only worth having if someone else envied them.”
The inside story of how the producers of "The Apprentice" crafted a TV version of Mr. Trump — measured, thoughtful and endlessly wealthy — that ultimately fueled his path to the White House.
...“At the office's spiritual center, Mr. Trump's own desk bore no evidence of work, no computer screens or piles of contracts and blueprints, just a blanket of news articles focused on one subject: himself.”..
Harris is building a broad and inclusive coalition of support. More and more people are realizing that the mad king has no clothes.
My hope is that post-Trump political activity will at least start to be a real balancing between conservatives and progressives, Right now, what we have is a mad dash for attention and market share that does nothing good for actual people.
That's why I'll always vote center-left even though my personal opinions are pretty out there. Carter, Obama and Biden are all centrists that lean left. Clinton was a centrist, too, but was just too slick by half and did more harm than good. It wasn't their job to make my dreams come true. It was to balance the interest of everybody at the table. They're lefties because they insisted that everyone is entitled to be at the table and have their interests considered, not just the aristocracy, landed gentry and organized religion.
Which is how he was able to get the show, because people knew his name. He was self-promoting long before then. We tend to know rich people like that. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Bezos are known for just being rich and successful in business. They could parlay that into book deals and TV shows.
However, The Apprentice put him in the mainstream and I think that the show elevated him from "rich celebrity" to icon.
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NY Times 9/14/24
The Star-Making Machine That Created 'Donald Trump'