The blowback to Trump's racist video reveals his weakness

This is just about their image for the midterm election this year.

I think we just have to accept by now that the US at large is ok with a pedophile, racist president. It's sad but, that's how it is. There really isn't an excuse anymore why Washington DC isn't being overrun by protesters by now except for that they don't really mind.

It's pronounced "clickbait"

The GOP have been silent during this entire Epstein saga. This has to do with them losing in special elections. That's why they finally woke up.

I don't think he opened up his laptop, created the video, then posted it himself. It's best to keep in mind that there are other people behind this. Someone had the idea, someone produced a few versions, someone approved one, someone posted it. And he got to reap the reward while dodging responsibility. They're all guilty.

I think it has more to do with people not talking about him trying to nationalize the elections. Using ICE to intimidate voters in democratic centers, Usng the SAVE act disproportionately disenfranchise groups more likely to be democrats: women, people of colour, low income, or young voters. These are key issues which need pushback on this year.

"He grew up in different times."

Practically every controversial thing trump has done would've gotten anyone else into scalding hot water. With him, it almost strengthens him. The absolute only way things could've been sensible is if "grab them by the pussy" would've ended his political career. I feel pretty confident it strengthened his popularity by a lot. Even women were defending him. Listening back to some older podcasts recently where they're talking about that, it was bizarre how people explained that shit away. "It clearly was locker room talk, he just was saying women liked him" 🤮

People actually defended him on the "they're sending their rapists and murderers" speech too, saying it was a lie that it was racist. If he had decades of being a normal human and never saying anything racist, I could kind of see a possibility he used bad language and didn't mean it that way, however the context of Trump is he's been known to be racist for decades and he literally did zero things to back off of those comments. He doubled down on the racism and almost always has...

I don't know what the future holds, and the actual damage done is awful, but the precedents set may be actually worse.