Thinking about this thing with Trump and Loomer.

For the past year Trump's campaign team have been trying to keep him on script, trying to keep him from personal attacks, trying to keep him focused on policy.

I mean, it's not working but he feels stifled. "After all," he fumes, "I'm the genius. I'm the one that people love. I can shoot someone etc etc..."

They give him some rope since he's running against Biden, and it's close enough that he can't screw it up too bad.

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Then suddenly he's running against Kamala Harris and her huge enthusiastic crowds, and his campaign needs to prod him harder. Forget 2020, forget Obama, forget your grievances.

But Trump is 90% grievances and 100% ego. He hates not being able to call people names. He hates not being able to insult people or threaten his perceived enemies. And honestly I don't think he's got enough brain power to understand or focus on policy.

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If you ever watch him reading a scripted speech from a teleprompter, he's like a bored kid reading a book report he downloaded from the internet without having read it.

He grips the podium, eyes locked on the prompter, no inflection, just mumbling and droning away, mispronouncing words, and sometimes surprised with what he just read, because he never even looked at the speech before.

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So here's Trump chafing at being told how to run his campaign. All his worst impulses are being squashed. People are telling him he's going to lose if he doesn't act more presidential.

Then along comes Laura Loomer, who treats him like the Godly figure he imagines he is. Trump is handsome, strong, intelligent, and better and WAY smarter than anyone else. She defends him against people who say he's stupid or a loser.

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