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I mean there’s changing your mind through learning and growing, and then there’s spewing contradictory ideas as they pop into your head because they suit you in the moment. I may be proven wrong but this feels to me like the latter.
Sounds pretty human. We’re bundles of contradictions.
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That's true, but that's not what's happening here. Musk reverses his stance on things whimsically and self-servingly. He's not even saying that he has new evidence. His thoughts and actions are completely erratic.
From your perspective it appears erratic because you don't have the same information.
Trump's gonna HAVE to start posting again because of the optics. The most recent tweets on his profile are the tweets from right before he got banned - the Capitol insurrection tweets. His profile is now just a glowing reminder of the Capitol insurrection. Terrible look for Trump. He's gonna need to either start deleting, or start burying these with new tweets, because the current situation is not exactly positive fo…
If anything I would say it's slightly more annoying for the insurrection conspiracy theorists to deal with because any time someone brings up those tweets they'll have to explain that when you connect all the dots it actually means Trump was behind it, and by that stage you've already lost the attention of most readers.
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Sounds pretty human. We’re bundles of contradictions.
That doesn’t stop most other responsible, powerful adults from being more thoughtful and considerate about decisions than Musk ever is.
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> in order to win, Trump needs to broaden his audience I don't think this is true. Trump's message, image, and behavior were possibly the most widely/frequently broadcast of any human in history. There is effectively no stone left unturned for him. There was also some analysis during his presidency that the more he tweeted, the worse his approval rating got. That might not be true these days, but it shows that not al…
I am not saying this is a winning strategy. Only that's the only reasonable strategy to have a shot on winning.
Much has changed since then. His opponent came with a relatively clean track record, at a time when he himself was seen to be struggling with a crisis. The opponent now has several crises of his own to deal with, most notably inflation, an issue that strikes close to home for a lot of voters.
So broadening his base may not be necessary. His base is quite enthusiastic, and it may suffice merely to demoralize his opponents. That strategy had worked for him in his first election, and now can come with the advantage of spending two years harassing the incumbent.
There are always too many variables to predict confidently, but his wisest course of action may simply be to do exactly what he's always done and hope that circumstances break his way -- which they very well could.