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The thing is, it doesn't really benefit anyone. If you're Russia, for instance, it would be better to destroy the entire democratic world than just the United States, and Trump could have done that if he'd just moved more slowly on some of his actions (for instance, if he'd remained quiet about Canada until after our election then we'd be in a very different situation now.) Trump's just an idiot, plain and simple, and the people he surrounds himself with are either idiots themselves or too cowardly to call the idiots out on their idiocy.
It's a mistake to think that either he or his handlers have some kind of master plan and that everything Trump does is the result of expert manoeuvring that just looks like stupidity. That promotes defeatism and gets people to surrender prematurely. As long as people stand up to Trump, he will lose.
I know, right?!? But the stupidity seems so be working far too well at the moment. So I don't think it's useful to listen to what they say, except in that so much of the time every accusation is a confession. I'm so glad trump didn't just stfu, and so Canada and Australia (who has their own billionaire who won't stfu) are in much better positions as a result. It is my sincere hope that their hubris will be their downfall. And dang if the whole catholic world didn't just 'come out' as being a little more sane, a little less fascist.