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So perfect: This week Trump claimed his rallies are having a "tremendously positive impact" on GOP candidates. Then Republicans promptly leaked that they fear the House is lost—and blamed Trump for all of it. On the pod, @stevebenen.com is good on the Trump bubble: newrepublic.com/article/2166...

newrepublic.comTrump’s Boast about Rallies Backfires as Humiliating New GOP Leaks HitAs Trump’s brag about his rallies runs into reality, MS NOW’s Steve Benen explains how this captures broader truths about Trump’s toxicity, GOP cultishness, and our strange political moment.

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Normal people see which way the wind blows and pivot. He’s incapable of grasping this. Maga thinks his doubling down is strength, but it is weakness, the absence of human survival instinct.

Deep inside, he knows he’s a loser. He built his own reality to shelter himself from the fact that he’s never been loved & never will be. He needs adoration from rallies/cabinet members who flatter him b/c he needs it to survive in his bubble & wrecks anything good in his path. It’s his psychopathy.

This graph is probably the main reason the Biden admin crashed & burned and why Trump, a convicted criminal, won the 2024 election. It's also why the GOP will get pummeled 3 weeks from now.

So my question is how can he not know how toxic he is to other repubs? Does he really not know or does he just not care? Either way I hope he goes out every single day cause when he does repubs lose and the country and globe win.

If Republicans honestly thought the polls were wrong, not only would they not be dumping money into elections, they would not be gerrymandering districts, disenfranchising voters, attempting to deport duly elected members of Congress, etc.