Donald Trump's legal strategies include counter-attacks and exploiting weaknesses in political, legal, and media systems. His approach involves denying guilt, deflecting blame, and distracting from issues. Trump's tactics have historical roots in mentorship from Roy Cohn. The challenge also lies in managing political time effectively—either speeding up or slowing down to leverage situations. Recent events illustrate the ongoing relevance of these strategies, often causing fatigue in public perception of his controversial actions, which previously would have ended the careers of past presidents.
The problem with a successful playbook is that you eventually keep doing the same thing mechanically. Trump's time-proven move, whatever happens, just counter-attack, is likely to keep the very story he wants to kill alive.
Trumpism, for sure, is a set of tactics for exploiting weaknesses in the US political, legal and media systems. Some of these tactics were inherited from his mentor Roy Cohn.
One must never admit guilt; one must always swing back; and one must reject, or ideally entirely bury, defeats. Managing political time, the art of speeding things up or slowing them down to one's advantage, is crucial.
We still debate whether Trumpism is a substantial ideology or not; but what is evident is its reliance on denial, deflection, and distraction to avoid accountability.
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