I want this question answered because it is insane how many people were involved in the coup.

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45. two things- trump's royal certitude and talk radio, which was all on the same page

-- for the last 30 years the right and putin's takeover of the republican party in this century have been coordinated through 1500 coordinated radio stations - for most of it through limbaugh.

the giuliani powell press conference nov 17 was timed to start at the beginning of the limbaugh show - which gave them 15 mil more audience and limbaugh's cache. he was croaking and missing shows but he was the most important part of the whole trump thing - which now rots with limbaugh. it's amazing that media has completely missed the part talk radio has played in everything trump has done and now the fragmenting of the republican party because limbaugh's unifying hold over it is gone. they're falling apart and missing the central messaging he provided in interpreting events, rationalizing and excusing the lies and stupidity, and 'owning the libs'. he actually had a calming effect on the racists and radicals, including the army of radio blowhards that are trying to outdo each other now the real king is dead. now they're loose.

trump is insane with sex on the wrong brain royal certitude. he has always compensated for his stupidity and total lack of imagination by creating certainty in everything he does and his authoritarian followers find security and calm in the way he can reduce the complicated world full of uncertainty into a simple fantasy of absolutes. life became a game of golf - just going from one hole to the next. he actually believes his lies - he has to - if there was any doubt he would fall apart with fear. he can deny anything that doesn't fit his black and white, fantastic and terrible, good and evil, winner and loser world. his 'leadership' was based on his sex on the wrong brain authoritarian insanity - certainty is more important than truth. unfortunately humans have been normalizing that insanity as 'manly', 'confident', 'winner', etc. - certain......

his followers are also very capable of denial but as the doubt seeps in they will fall apart like the nazi 'empire'. guys like stone and manafort were helping the kremlin use that sex on the wrong brain secret of authoritarian power dynamic that trump and limbaugh embodied and that whole narrative is still built into the republican right narrative. the question is how much damage will they do before they realize how they were used, and some won't.