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1/2 🧵Not only is Donald Trump a Russian asset, but he's also flouting it around on full display for all the world to see. Strongman leaders have a well-documented tendency to stop hiding things that an earlier version of themselves would have CONCEALED.

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2/2 Political scientists sometimes call this the shift from deniability to PERFORMANCE. The shift has occurred, and we are now in the performance phase. This is a very dangerous shift. Why? It signals that Trump believes the costs of concealment...have dropped BELOW the BENEFITS of the display.

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Fascinating that as even as other Republicans who long ago sold their souls to MAGA still have enough baseline political acumen to see how poisonous this is, Vance is completely oblivious. It isn't just that he has no principles, decency, or moral compass, he's also really fucking bad at politics.

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literally moments after claiming he gave up nothing in exchange for a hostage who was being held by Putin, Trump admits that he didn't implement sanctions on Russia in order to get the hostage

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