Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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Very guarded.
And Putin disappears sometimes.
And no one can know because that shows people it's like a survivalist mentality, especially in Russia where people are falling out of windows or you go into the hospital and you never come out.
So if that's survivalist, what is that that I just showed you?
Yeah.
And it works because the people behind him and around him and on Fox News and are- It's like active gaslighting.
Yes.
They are choosing to ignore it and saying that he is still the greatest leader in the world and ignoring completely.
Well, Trump told us, and it was either 2015 or 2016, and he said, don't believe your eyes and ears.
And so they're just deciding, I'm not going to-
I'm not going to believe that Trump is sleeping.
He's still the great leader and I'm going to message that.
Or they turn any kind of adversity into a heroism and like he's a victim.
And so we have to help him.
And that worked for a very long time.
They wore the maxi pads on their ear at the RNC.
Yes, that worked for a very long time.
But now he's sleeping and we're at war and the economy is tanking and American science and medicine are being sabotaged.
They really are.
And education.