The Politics of Switching: A Trump survival tactic in party loyalty

Each politician operates with a certain degree of shame. It is practically in the description of the workplace.

As they try to navigate the political winds by Aulla, they must justify regularly change their positions. Perhaps the mood of the country has been changed. Maybe it’s a matter of party loyalty. Maybe they are leaning on the pressure of the great donors.

And maybe they are hypocro because something they opposed during the Biden administration is now perfectly well in the Trump administration.

We are not yet receiving the “direct history” on Biden’s alleged decline: Kurtz

Whatever the circumstances, it is shameless to provide an explanation that everyone knows is the garbage.

And they have to do it with a straight face. They cannot say -well, Donald Trump will ensure that I am ready if I do not go on top. So they offer a transparent explanation.

This, you could argue, is the nature of politics. You need to have some flexibility, a little room.

In one of my two interviews with President Trump last year, he tried to explain why Tiktok had completely launched. After all, the first term had passed by trying to ban Chinese property company for national security reasons, only to be blocked by court. Now, he had suddenly made 180 and was trying to save the application, despite a ban on congress.

Trump told me he changed his mind because Tiktok would help Facebook, which he considered a greater threat.

I didn’t buy it. He had come to the conclusion that Tiktok was incredibly popular, especially for young people, and wanted to sit as a Savior. This, of course, was before Mark Zuckerberg began to approach Trump, such as making a $ 1 billion donation to its inaugural.

Trump can have the most blatant gene of all of them, and this is part of the reason he is successful.

Trump stepped on the “unpleasant” reporter’s question

Does not hang on what he said the day before or an hour before. It can express sympathy for the diagnosis of Joe Biden prostate cancer to say that it is not worth Biden. It can go from blaming the Ukraine War impasse to Volodomyr Zelenskyy to finally condemning Vladimir Putin to calling -Biden’s war.

Ross Douthat has a smart choice in his New York Times column:

“ The desire to swing and back down and contradict is a large part of what the viable president maintains, and the promise of chicken is part of the implicit land of Trump to Swing voters, reassuring them that anything extreme is also provisional, which is always testing limits (in politics, in power), but also ready to go back. ”

So Maga voters trust Trump to go far, but not far away?

This brings them to the territory of John Kerry: “I really voted for $ 87 billion before voting,” referring to military help in our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Republican ads immediately portrayed the 2004 presidential candidate as Flip-Flopper. Kerry later allowed him to “inarticulate”.

It is helpful to think about turning the script. In the media on Trump’s rhythm, the president gave one to the leader of a violent Chicago gang, Larry Hoover, a drug dealer who has been fulfilled six consecutive life sentences to kill a man.

To a large extent symbolic? Sure, because Hoover will remain in prison for state accusations. No matter.

If Biden had done it, conservative voters would have gone to Haywire. How do you dare to side with a murderer? Biden do not take into account human life? The man who died does not have a second chance.

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Maga -driven story would have been on television every 10 minutes. With Trump, it was a blow, barely a story.

Of course, Biden’s hands are not exactly clean on the pardon front. He repeatedly promised not to forgive Hunter, and then he did exactly after the election. It was a shameless lie and a great story.

The other day, Trump became angry when a CNBC journalist asked him about his taco nickname, Trump Always Chicken, based on Wall Street’s talk. He asked the “unpleasant” question, the king of the derogatory nicknames (see Joe, Sleepy).

Apart from poultry metaphor, the president often delayes the Draconian rates, carries out fast negotiations and declares victory. Their supporters like this because markets often shoot, although the crisis clearly shakes the global economy.

When Trump becomes a little bit at the polls, Douthat says, “with a different president … you could say that this recovery took place despite the various backs and reversions of the White House. because Of these mishaps and recalibations. Seeing that Trump is checked and reviewed by others is what an important group of voters wait for their presidency. They like Trump’s pressure institutions that they trust or do not like, from official Washington to elite universities, but their approval depends on a dynamic interaction, where they accept counterpression and retire. ”

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One of the reasons why Trump moves away from all this is that Democrats have no national spokesman. Tim Walz, the VP Flop, playing the candidacy for President? People like Hakem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer do not break. The AOC has good bumps on social media, but is not even a member of the lead.

You must also prove Trump’s political skills. It does not have the slightest fear of being cheeky.