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I can't explain why, but trump really is a special case in terms of being able to get away with saying and doing the most reprehensible shit. Other GOPers who do this have been able to ride his coattails to some degree, but in general it still disgusts people when anyone else does it.

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social

This will go down as one of the most incredible screwups in recent campaign history, and it happened because brain-fried Republicans like Ramaswamy can't imagine that voters don't actually want politicians to be gigantic assholes. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/vivek-rama...

publicnotice.coVivek Ramaswamy discovers that voters have their limitsAsking “What would Trump do?” is a bad way to make campaign strategy.

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Maida Vandendorpe

@maida.bsky.social

19h

Is it an effect from The Apprentice? From abroad this is just the most puzzling aspect of it all.

Sam

@very-simple.com

18h

I honestly don't know. As a New Yorker, we've always hated the guy (my stepmom in particular despises him for tearing down the Bonwit Teller building), but he does have a very weird charisma that some people find appealing.

Natanael, Tech janitor

@natanael.bsky.social

17h

It's really some tribalist thing, psychology of favoritism, etc, the persistent idea he's just been misrepresented. People have been primed to see themselves in him so they'll excuse anything