You mean with Gingrich?, or the Tea Party?
That’s because those are the only threads you bother to notice. Broaden your horizons:
You might have a point there and yes the “Overton Window” is a thing, but you’re still missing the substance of the MAGA movement - an Overton Window on steroids, and it still remains that: Trump couldn’t have been done it without the Putin the KGB’s’s attentive grooming and support, and their digital bull horn of focused, tactical and strategic online deception.
it was around years before Trump’s campaign started
American Kompromat a summary:
By Craig Unger
How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery
Key ideas in American Kompromat
Introduction
The KGB had established contact with Donald Trump by 1980.
The KGB exploited Trump’s personality and desires.
Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation produced endless streams of kompromat.
The Catholic sect Opus Dei successfully infiltrated the US government.
William Barr’s authoritarian ideals helped expand Trump’s power.
Trump wielded executive power that greatly served Vladimir Putin.
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