alt Hacker NewsNah, this is giving him far too much credit. I've read many a theory about how this or that thing that has been said is just a ruse or a troll and the real plan makes so much more sense and his actions have done nothing to demonstrate that.
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I've also heard what you're saying before and I'm equally confused by this take.
I'm not saying the Republicans keep their plans secret. The brutal simplicity is the main appeal for Republican voters. They emphatically don't want discussion. They want action. There's nothing to pick apart or analyze, and that's the point. It's hard to argue with someone waving a big stick.
Here's a quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
> Jonathan Clarke, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and prominent critic of Neoconservatism, proposed the following as the "main characteristics of neoconservatism": "a tendency to see the world in binary good/evil terms", a "low tolerance for diplomacy", a "readiness to use military force", an "emphasis on US unilateral action", a "disdain for multilateral organizations" and a "focus on the Middle East".
This is the same game plan since the 1970s. If you want to hear any debate about it, you're gonna have to go that far back. Nobody in today's Republican party is ever going to entertain or reiterate any of this because it will just make them look weak to voters.
Worth a watch (the Chomsky episode of Firing Line): https://youtube.com/watch?v=9DvmLMUfGss
I responded with a few theories about the attention economy here [1]. Not trying to troll, though I get what you're saying there too.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668439