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Consistency, Mind Games and Power-Plays in the Brave New World of Weird

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December 13, 2024 12:40 p.m.
DULUTH, GEORGIA - OCTOBER 23: (L-R) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, Political Commentator Tucker Carlson and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (R-HI) appear on stage... DULUTH, GEORGIA - OCTOBER 23: (L-R) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, Political Commentator Tucker Carlson and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (R-HI) appear on stage together during a Turning Point Action campaign rally at the Gas South Arena on October 23, 2024 in Duluth, Georgia. Trump is campaigning across Georgia today as he and Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris attempt to win over swing state voters. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) MORE LESS

I’ve written a few times recently about Donald Trump’s ability to stake out and hold territory in the public mind, the public attention span, with threats that he likely (though not certainly) can’t make good on or won’t even have the attention span or care enough to focus on. So he’ll end birthright citizenship or he’ll jail his opponents. Or maybe not. It’s part of his ability to always be taking the initiative on that mutable and uncanny territory where media narratives and old fashioned reality become a common fabric. He acts and keeps acting and his opponents react and keep reacting.

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