# The Donald Trump 2024 Campaign Thread (Primary Edition)

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Tags:** trump\
**Created:** [November 15, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970 "2022-11-15T18:18:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 17, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/176 "2022-11-17T15:41:29Z")

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> [@Dr\_Paprika](#):
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> It probably involved those things. But if you don’t think it happened - ask his generals or prominent people in his Party. Who rationalized their cowardice by bending the knee after he insulted them and their families, waited for him to “act Presidential”, “letting Trump be Trump”, “being the adults in the room”, then “being in on the joke”.

There were actually quite a few times where the military people shut down his worst impulses, so I don’t think this counts. A lot of the “Let Trump be Trump” moments came about simply because he was president, and that gave him the legal authority to do things, even if others disagreed with him. A soldier following orders because that’s what they swore to do, and the orders aren’t _technically_ illegal, is very different from a soldier following orders because you’ve convinced them that it’s actually a good idea.

For non-military people, how many people did he fire because they _wouldn’t_ just go along with his schemes? It took him years to find the toadies who would do his bidding, and in those cases, that’s what those people already wanted to do. He didn’t need to convince them, he just needed to find them. And he didn’t even really need to “find” them, because a lot of the shitty people were clamoring for an opportunity to get a job that allowed them to be Officially Shitty.

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