@denisedwheeler.bsky.social You're overthinking things and giving #Trump too much credit.
There's no conspiracy here, there's just Trump responding to the memes of his base, with other people profiting all the while. But he doesn't know what he's doing. He's too stupid.
He could incarcerate more people. But he's too stupid to do that too if he wanted to.
When we give Trump too much credit we end up excusing the folks that are actually doing this stuff, particularly congresspeople that we keep reelecting for some reason. It lets them off the hook. Let's not.