Bravado on a personal level is the same kind of dumb. I can understand someone and conclude their behavior and reasoning are faulty, harmful or then call it dum

Bravado on a personal level is the same kind of dumb. I can understand someone and conclude their behavior and reasoning are faulty, harmful or then call it dumb. This idea that everyone must project increasingly unlikely positive smart motivations onto Trump or conservatives in general despite what they say and do is harmful. > I feel like if you pretend it’s 1850 and there’s some great powers struggle afoot, trump makes a lot more sense. I would say, he does not. When there are powers struggles afoot, it is actually better to be capable to be strategic about who/how you antagonize and attack. > The game theory around international relations hasn’t really changed much since then, there’s just a veneer of ideology strapped on top of it. I would argue that it did changed a lot in between. International relations are not the same at all.