RUSH EXCERPT:CARUSONE: "I think what is factoring into Trump’s thinking is Fox News and that’s it. The people that he has paid attention to for a really long time. So, you know, the lens through which he sees the world, they are really coloring this, not the advisers around him. As much as they may make some noise in the room. The truth is really it’s all a stage. And he really cares about how this stuff plays out in the, in the, in the in the shows he watches. And what he’s seeing is the usual suspects criticizing him. And I think the fact that he’s willing to engage uniquely in ways that he hasn’t in the past is sort of a tell him that he thinks he has some room to move things, or that at least he has to do some damage control to backstop it. But in the places that he pays the most attention to the things that factored into his thinking, he’s not being told that he needs to stop. He’s being told that gas prices are starting to go up a little bit. But that’s the price of freedom that this is worth it. Full steam ahead. Backing down is going to look weak, that there’s a way for him to put boots on the ground but not violate any of his promises and also achieve success. And he has his own long arc here, which is that he never sort of retreats from these positions. He always sticks out more leverage, more extreme posture. He doesn’t really care about anybody else in the room. At the end of the day, he cares about the story, and the story in his mind is this is ending a 47 year war, and he gets to put another notch in his belt. If he just shows some strength and some muscle. And when this all first started, he literally said, people are going to die. Oh, well, we’re going to do this. So I don’t think there’s that is going to be a factor for him in this moment. The moment is on the stage. He’s watching. It’s playing out really well. And I think that’s the single single lens, much like in the lead up to January 6th. Ironically, only Fox News could really change the course of this ship. And they’re not."

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