Opinion: Dems shouldn’t become complacent just because so many of Trump’s prior threats were empty. Nor should they start hollering about a fascistic takeover. Instead, they should apply the lessons of the poker table to Trump’s latest political atrocity
“ power over the states that he would use to reopen them. He even thought he could bluff the pandemic into submission by claiming that it would disappear soon.told me last year: “aggressive maniac.” The aggro maniac is the player who raises and raises on poor hands, hoping to cow more passive players into submission. “It’s a style of play that’s incredibly high in variance: You win a lot, but you also lose the maximum,” she said, as better players figure the maniac out.
Democrats shouldn’t become complacent just because so many of Trump’s prior threats were empty. Nor should they start hollering about a fascistic takeover. Instead, they should apply the lessons of the poker table to Trump’s latest political atrocity. Trump has tipped his hand—or at least his political strategy—by promising post-election brinkmanship all the way to Inauguration Day should he not win the November election decisively.
Democrats now have the time and the incentive to prepare their own legal and political offenses. What makes a card player like Trump so supremely exploitable, Konnikova told me, is that he will fold when his bluffs encounter high resistance. In addition to protesting Trump’s vile political manners, Democrats need to visibly lawyer up and assign their brightest minds to waging the ancillary presidential campaign in the states, the Electoral College and, if need be, the Congress.
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