David Pakman

If you understand that the primary incentive is stay in power, keep my audience.

Everything else comes after that.

I to be clear again, this is a harsh critique.

It does not apply to everybody, but it applies to too many.

And we have to remember that when we're analyzing the messages that we get.

So now I want to hear from you.

Who do you believe this critique applies to and who do you believe it doesn't apply to?

I want to hear from you.

Leave me a comment.

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Donald Trump may find himself too weak to pick his successor as the leader of MAGA.

Let me explain.

If you're waiting for a sort of Julius Caesar moment where the MAGA movement finally turns on Trump, I don't believe that it's going to happen.

You are kind of like waiting around for a lightning strike when it's more likely that the tide coming in will slowly drown you, to use a kind of metaphor imagery.

I think that the reality of what's happening on on the MAGA side is actually more interesting and more consequential than just they've turned on Trump.

They're not so much breaking away from Trump, but they're preparing for a world in which Trump is not the center of their political movement.

Now, for years, the kind of gravity of the movement was stay close to Trump and by his sheer weight.

And I'm using that metaphorically.

I'm not talking about Trump's obesity by the sheer weight of Trump.

If you stay close, he's going to kind of keep you in that orbit circling.