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Trump is a mentally declining egoist. I think this has the potential to be a masterful move by Mamdani. All he has to do is put on a bit of a show, and just stick to his affordability plans (an area Trump has been trying to hit lately) and maybeeee just maybe let Trump think it was his own idea, then bam.
If (big if I know) Trump echoes one of Mamdanis popular positions I bet TONS of right wingers would happily jump on board and the RNC wouldn't be able to close that pandoras box, at least on that particular policy. The biggest road block is whichever of Trumps aides are with him. When they leave him alone it doesn't seem to take much to convince him, like the 50 year mortgage story.
On the other hand, Mamdani is a brown Muslim socialist immigrant and Trump is an aspiring 21st century Hitler. Uh... I ain't holding my breath.
I'm confident mamdani will ask trump what his plan to address affordability is and if it is a media circus trump will just Joe Brandon himself by lying about the economy.
Trump will usually come out agreeing with the last person in the room to say something to him. He’s like a goldfish brain in that respect. So your advisor comment is very apt, will be interesting to see how this goes down.
I was thinking about why no one tried to do this with Trump before knowing that even last term all it took was schmoozing and compliments to get on his good side, then I realized the massive media blitz they used to try and stop Mamdani combined with his popularity and win is exactly what gave him such a unique and elevated platform from which to do it. Hilarious and very smart imo. Mamdani knows how to play the game for certain.
Mamdani’s natural talents are a big part of the equation, I agree. He’s just a great politician, and seems to have a good platform.
As for why Dems didn’t do this before, there are likely several reasons. Primarily, garbage leadership. They decided declaring Trump public enemy #1 and fundraising on fears of what he might do was the best approach. They made a lot of money doing this, but at what cost? Lost all branches of government. Historic losses in state seats. And worst of all, they manufactured consent for all of Trump’s worst authoritarian tendencies.
Republicans are evil, but Dems are god awful at politics. In that regard, I think Trump rightly recognizes that politicians like Mamdani are in fact the future of the Dem party, if it can survive to see the day.
The handful of MAGAs still left in my social feed jumped on releasing the epstein files as soon as Trump flipped. Shits hilarious. So yeah, I agree, trump's statements are these people's beliefs at the drop of a tweet