Also, I think the Putin puppet theory is oversold and overbought on DU. tRump does what he does for narcissistic personal gain. He really doesn't care about anyone else. It is the simplest and most powerful explanation for his actions. We read all the time on right wing sites that "Democrats are actively working to destroy America because they hate it." Flipping it and saying it on DU is just as nonsensical. tRump probably had Russian help in 2016, and he reveres Putin for his authoritarian power and wealth, so for example he was very toady and puppy-doggy at the famous Helsinki summit.
Never forget two key points: 1) Rs and Ds have the same values: freedom, justice, family, country, and religion or rejection of. Ds add broader communities because they have more empathy. 2) They both act semi-rationally and semi-emotionally but have been trained to view things through very different lenses. Personally I think Ds are less trained, more diverse in view point, and clearer in vision.
tRump does not want to destroy the US. He just doesn't care what gets broken and damaged and who gets injured or killed, especially if they are not rich white people, especially males. He doesn't wake up saying "How can I destroy the US?" He wakes up saying "What can I do for myself today?" He thinks he is saving the US and the world from wokism and communism (and that he deserves to be ten times richer and twice as powerful). Hence his aspirations for the Nobel Peace Prize. But he is primarily very self-centered and not hardly at all introspective and has little or no empathy for others. He is famously transactional.
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