• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove wrote in The Wall Street Journal: “Mr Trump can’t come off as unhinged or enraged. The words ‘rigged election’ shouldn’t pass his lips. He has to keep his cool and can’t make it all about himself.”

    I can’t believe they defrosted Karl Rove.

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      5 months ago

      He shouldn’t make it about himself? Has Karl Rove even met Trump? He’s the posterchild for untreated, raging narcissism.

      It’s like saying Biden should come in skating and say “hello, fellow kids!”

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        Rove is one of the old strategists of the GOP. He knows how to play the game the traditional way, and he was pretty successful at it for a long time. He’s evil, but not dumb.

        What he apparently still doesn’t get is that Trump took that playbook, noticed it has words in it, shat on it, and threw it back at Rove.

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      Veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove wrote in The Wall Street Journal: “Mr Trump can’t come off as unhinged or enraged. The words ‘rigged election’ shouldn’t pass his lips. He has to keep his cool and can’t make it all about himself.”

      In other words, Trump has to be literally anyone other than himself. He might be able to refrain from lying about “rigged elections” but there’s no chance in hell he doesn’t come across as unhinged or making everything about himself.

      Which won’t matter at all to Republicans, cause they’re a god damned cult.