Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
touaregtweet ("Touaregtweet") wrote:
"One of his most effective tools is what we might call the Trump Two-Step, in which the former president says something outrageous, backs away from it in the face of criticism, and then fully embraces it. The goal here is to create a veneer of deniability. It doesn’t even need to be plausible; it just needs to muddy the waters a bit."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/trump-two-step-bloodbath-2024-election/677966/ #Trump #TwoStep