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And a lot more of the reporting on Trump is true. In all your arguments, you don't pay any attention whatsoever to negative reporting that is true, only false or exaggerated. Did you ever consider that a large part of Trumps negative reporting is because he as a candidate ran a thoroughly negative campaign based on all out attacks on everyone?
"Trump turned the tide" is pure fiction. You seem to again be wilfully ignoring the fact that, by the end of the Obama era, the tide had swung very much against the Democrats. I've already told you this multiple times but you somehow still have it lodged in your head that Democrats was in the ascendancy and Trump reversed that. Let's look at a breakdown of how seats swung to or from Republicans from 2008:
2008: H:-21, S-8
2010: H:+63, S+6
2012: H:-8, S-2
2014: H:+13, S+9
2016: H-6, S-2 (Trump era)
2018: H-42, S+2
2020: H+13, S-3 (Biden)
2022: H+9, S-1
2024: H-2, S+4 (Trump)
So in 2016 when Trump took over, Republicans LOST seats, having made record gains during the Obama era. There was no big Democrat wave, despite years of Republicans ******* about and all the stupid games that you claim didn't work. They had solidified their position in the legislature long before Trump. You want to dismiss the tea party influence but the rise of the tea party coincides with the 2010 sweep of seats, not "5 or so" as you claim, the rise of Trump doesn't. It seems I'm going to have to say it again, Tea part movement gains ground -> swing of 63 hours seats and 6 senate seats to Republicans -> you dismiss as inconsequential. MAGA takes over -> loss of 48 house seats over 2 elections -> you portray as Trump rescuing the party. It's clearly such bullshit. Considering your tendency to fixate on the end result only, this is a very weird sudden turn in which you completely ignore the outcome, in fact you appear to be fabricating a completely different reality in which the Republican historic gains were just "5 seats or so".
"Trump can do and say whatever he wants, he has deflection armour, created by all those false allegations and accusations"
Yet Trump is constantly creating false allegations and accusations for others and you ignore that. When something is directed it as Trump, you attribute it to his popularity. When Trump is directing it at others, you discount it. Hell, you even suggest Trump's style of doing exactly that is what got him popularity, when in the next breath claiming it is a failed tactic. Do lies and name calling work or not? Also where is the evidence that Republicans or anyone supported Trump out of sympathy? I've heard very little to suggest that. Most Trumpers who support Trump state it is because of the nastier things he openly says that they feel like they've wanted to say for ages. Most supporters tellingly have, at the core of their desire, a want for others to be harmed in some way due to a sense of victimisation or because they feel the world is a zero sum game.
You keep talking about Trump "managing" a perception as if there's a plan behind it and not him simply acting literally exactly as he always does. There is no grand strategy, it's the Blackadder "deny everything Baldrick" level of thinking. Can you point to a level of scheming beyond simply calling everything negative about him fake, everything true amazing or "best thing ever" and childish name calling?
