# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 1)

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**Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/92 "2020-11-22T15:18:40Z")

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> [@Red\_Wiggler](#):
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> I lost the train of discussion about the Federalist, could someone catch me up?

1. The link to the Federalist is to an article by Jenna Ellis, written in 2016, explaining that Donald Trump is a Fascist, whose values are un-American and dangerous.

2. In 2020, Jenna Ellis is a lawyer acting on Trump’s team to keep him in power.

For further details, see this article:

[https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/politics/kfile-jenna-ellis-2016-trump-comments/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/politics/kfile-jenna-ellis-2016-trump-comments/index.html)

I’m actually coming round to the idea that Trump is the Mule: he has this amazing power to alter the minds of reasonable people so they become his perpetual acolytes.

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