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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Excellent post, but Trump retreated into his own bubble. He only consumed friendly media, and everything he was presented with was filtered by his staff.

It's no wonder he can't imagine he lost the election, he hid away from the majority who hated him.

[–]MarquisBoniface[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Excellent post, but Trump retreated into his own bubble. He only consumed friendly media, and everything he was presented with was filtered by his staff.

This is one of the upsides to him being forced out (for now)

Ever since 2017 he's had wedges placed between him and a lot of his supporters

There was a huge wedge in 2017 when he struck Syria (though in retrospect he did the bare minimum), and those wedges increased as more and more of his fans were abused, doxxed, silenced and deplatformed, with almost all the apparatus gone

https://sputniknews.com/world/201908071076496391-one-in-ten-accounts-retweeted-by-trump-get-suspended-banned-for-various-alleged-violations---report/

And then the remaining RT's were increasingly insane (astroturfed?) shills some believe were just faking their "Trump support" to promote stupid idiocy

https://nypost.com/2020/10/15/navy-seal-who-killed-bin-laden-slams-trump-for-retweeting-qanon-conspiracy-theory/

It got so bad that even Alex Jones (of all people) has denounced Qanon as subversive to independent media, and as toxic

Now that he is "back in the trenches" with his fans, he can use business/legal skills to re-engage the assholes fucking up the country, big Tech especially

Many people who were fans of Trump were not fans of his Twitter, both for the excessively offensive/outrageous things on there, but the fact he wasted his time on Twitter rather than support an alternative platform

So him being banned on Twitter probably hurts Twitter more than it hurts him (and his fans) overall

The most important thing about Trump NOT "snapping" (doing something extreme like ordering a drone strike on tech oligarchs) is that, despite current drama, he's still mostly embedded in the GOP apparatus