It's the same playbook as foreign sanctions elsewhere.

The Assads, Kims, and Putins of the world can get their people to rally into a "bunker mentality" which helps prop up their regimes as a grand and noble struggle.

Trump has brought the same energy home. And history shows you can milk it for decades or generations even before something essential craxks.

Group think is bad. Larger the group the lower the IQ.

Struggle is a key part of propaganda and cult of personality, all for the "better good". And if they already are this far, they will keep going

Are we all just cowering down? Reading these comments makes it sounds like we should just all give up.

Yes, but the number of Trump supporters is dwindling.

GUNS