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Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss the implications of Trump's midterm campaign and his crisis of personality.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Sidney’s column in The Guardian, “Trump’s midterm campaign theme is unrequited love,” the crisis of his cult of personality, his manipulative ploy to get people to show love for him by voting Republican, his exploitation of Karoline Leavitt and Darline Graham as his instruments to advance his self-love campaign, and the role of his aide Natalie harp as his perfect worship and perfect voter. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595 Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 Subscribe to Unprecedented with Michael Popok and Dina Doll podcast feed…

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Hosts: Sidney Blumenthal, Sean Wilentz

Topics covered

• Trump
• midterm campaign
• cult of personality
• manipulation
• political strategy
• self-love campaign

Keywords

• Trump
• midterm elections
• cult of personality
• political manipulation
• self-love
• voting
• Republican

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Organizations: The Guardian

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