The thing that stands out for me in Trump's interview with Fox & Friends on the weekend (seeing bits via Colbert), is that he never answers a question directly, it's always a dodge & miss.
Even something like "what's your relationship with God" is met with "well evangelicals love me" — that says nothing about that question
@thisismissem this is key.
#Trump never has been a leader, and he was never the cause of the shifts in the political landscape that we've seen. People blame Trump for so much that he's simply not even capable of being the cause of.
Trump's a loser and needs to be approached as such.
What you're noticing is what his supporters trained him into doing. Long ago he would occasionally take an actual stance, get it wrong, and have to be corrected. He learned not to, since his crowd would project what they want to hear onto his rhetorical vomit. So much easier.
And it captures that far from being a leader, he's a puppet for his crowd. THEY are the problem.
Practically, we need to identify his crowd as the problem and work on resolving that. Trump is the distraction.
This is so important in understanding #USPolitics
