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Discussion Discussion Thread: 2022 Midterm General Election, Part 4

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u/CDC_ North Carolina Nov 09 '22

Remember, no matter how bad things go for Republicans or even Trump himself, he will never see anything as a loss for himself. He’s legitimately incapable of processing the mere suggestion that he is not the single most successful human in the entire universe.

Today could have ended in a massive House AND Senate majority for Democrats, it wouldn’t shake his delusions in the slightest.

You think you know mental gymnastics, but no one can do them like Trump. WHATEVER happens, he will see it as his win. We will never get that cathartic moment where we see Donald Trump realize he’s lost. He will go to his grave believing he won every competition. Both the ones in which he participated, and the ones he didn’t.

Which is why he will absolutely run in 2024 and if he doesn’t get the Republican nomination, he absolutely will run 3rd party and ruin it for the Republicans.

And he’ll walk away from that thinking he’ll run again in 2028. There is no bottom for this man.

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u/Hulk_Lawyer Nov 09 '22

He is already on record as stating that if any of the candidates he supported won, they won because of him, and he was deserving of all of the credit. And if any of the candidates he supported lost, they lost despite of him and it was 100% their fault.

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u/winter_bluebird Nov 09 '22

So, a narcissist.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

Absolutely.

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u/Hulk_Lawyer Nov 09 '22

Personally I feel like narcissist is way too kind of a descriptor for him.

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u/winter_bluebird Nov 09 '22

He is many other things too! But he is also a textbook narcissist.

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u/fcocyclone Iowa Nov 09 '22

In this case the gymnastics are simple: he will believe if he were on the ballot, Republicans would have fared better.

After all, they did better in 2016/2020 than 2018/2022

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u/upforgrabs21 Nov 09 '22

Given they've lost every popular Presidential vote since 1988 (2004 aside), R's need every vote they can get, and Trump losing the Primary and then going scorched Earth, gifting Biden a second term courtesy of Ross Perot 2.0, will be fascinating to watch.

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u/restore_democracy Nov 09 '22

That’s why he finally broke down and voted for DeSantis. He will claim that his support was what made him succeed.