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The pattern was the point: Trump’s team kept choosing maximalist rhetoric that thrilled the base for a minute and handed everyone else a cudgel. On a day when the campaign should have been selling inevitability, it instead sold instability.
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At a South Carolina rally on February 10, Trump said he would encourage Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” to NATO countries he thinks are not paying enough. The line detonated immediately because it sounded less like bargaining and more like a public invitation to Russian aggression. The backlash was swift, and it cut directly against his effort to look like a strongman-in-waiting.