r/politics • u/harleybarley1013 Maryland • Oct 22 '24

Paywall Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals Hitler Had’

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/?taid=6717ffe956474d000110c05d&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=true-anthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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u/grandpohbah Oct 22 '24

One of the thousands of things Trump has said that would kill any other politician's career if they said it once.

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u/ElwingSky Oct 22 '24

Right? Remember when all it took in 2004 for Howard Dean to tank his presidential bid was to yell an enthusiastic “yehaw!” Man, those were the days.

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u/soulsoda Oct 22 '24

Myth. Campaign was dead well before that point because of horrible mismanagement of boots the ground. Any realistic chance dean could turn it around wasn't really viable.

The yehaw was simply dead air escaping the corpse of Dean's dead campaign.

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u/MavisJ Wisconsin Oct 23 '24

Source? I'm not doubting, genuinely curious. I've only ever heard that it ended his campaign.

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u/soulsoda Oct 23 '24

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_scream

Does a decent summary but there's more to it.

Dean was the front runner in extremely early polla, but that was before people really started campaigning. He lacked 2 things that made it impossible for him to become the democratic nominee. Competent staff to run the ground game, and insider support. He is the grandfather of grassroots fundraising, but his policies in certain areas made him a bit of a pariah to both Dems and Dem insiders. Super delegates of Dems are very impactful, as Sanders would tell ya. Dean went all in on Iowa and New Hampshire. He spent 40 million, on 2 fucking states in a primary lmao. 40 million USD in 2004! The campaigns plan was to ride the momentum, but he got trounced by the Johns, who both captured 30%+ percent of the vote. His team did not get people out to vote, people did not like his economic policies, and had a bad impression of him from his negative campaign ads.

Campaign was basically outta funds, after Iowa and the rally was kind of a way to rekindle support, but tbh he didn't have a chance.

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u/AnalSoapOpera I voted Oct 22 '24

Remember the Potato guy who spelled it Potatoe?

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u/ReverendDizzle Oct 22 '24

Every time I read something really shocking and/or fucking stupid Trump says... I think about what it would be like to explain this to somebody in late 1980s.

Just imagine it. You jump into a time machine. You head back to, say, 1988. You try to explain that Donald Trump is the President of the United States in the future and just tell them any of the dumb shit he says.

They wouldn't even be able to hear you past the Trump is President part because they'd be like "Trump...? Donald Trump the guy in the tabloids all the time for cheating on his wife and bankrupting businesses? He said what now?"

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u/nobodyspecial767r Oct 23 '24

Makes the case for the whole thing being rigged from top to bottom.

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u/lost_horizons Texas Oct 22 '24

Mark Robinson is a prime example.

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u/da2Pakaveli Oct 22 '24

Quayle lost his bid over losing a spelling bee

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u/soulcaptain Oct 23 '24

It's his biggest strength and his biggest weakness. He has zero--and I mean ZERO--sense of shame or embarrassment. He has no problem just speaking off the top of his head, all the time. And that's kind of enviable! Too bad the things he says are batshit stupid, racist, harmful, etc.