Epic faceplant. I have no idea who convinced Trump that this would be a good plan, but the dems need to send whoever it was a fruit basket and a box of cigars.
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On paper, it is actually a really good idea.
libertarians are basically chickenshit republicans who don't want to acknowledge how they get their dream world that... is pretty damned similar to the republican dream world. The problem is that trump is just an unlikable and obnoxious piece of shit. And libertarians are incredibly fragile and need to have their ego stroked endlessly because they are "enlightened" and "above the petty two party system". And trump almost immediately started talking about how he was one of the best libertarians and blah blah blah.
Removing the trump factor, it would be like if Biden (or, honestly, even Sanders) were to go talk in front of a tankie rally. On paper, they want many of the same things and have many of the same policies. But they would be one poorly phrased message away from failing a purity test and being booed out of the venue.
During the speech, Trump quotes an editorial by Deroy Murdock saying Trump should be nominated as the Libertarian candidate. My guess is Trump was handed a printout of the article by the staffer whose job it is to cherry pick news to make Donald feel good. He read it and he decided he needed to go to the convention, as everything he’d read said he should be their candidate. The no one among the yes men he surrounds himself with was able to talk him out of it.
That picture.
I thought it was a photoshop. That shit is actually real, lol.
I thought you was a photoshop
I isn’t a photoshop
The fact that libertarians are using an anarchist slogan cheeses me off
His campaign team isn’t as bumbling and dumb as they were in 2016. That makes me wonder if this appearance was actually an attempt to claw back the center-right. Now Fox News can say “He’s not extreme. The libertarians didn’t like him, and they’re farther to the right.”
They’re more bumbling and dumb because since he “won” in 2016 now he doesn’t have to listen to the political consultants who would have told him ahead of time what his remarks should be. Not that he would have followed those either.
How bad could it be, he just threw the general election down the toilet 🥳