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Trump is a fire (self.FediRanPrieur)

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I tend to agree with Ran in his “Trump is a fire” analogy. But I’d like to extend the analogy and see where it goes.

I spent some years of my youth as a wildland firefighter. There, I was taught about the “fire triangle.” Fire needs three things to sustain itself: (i) fuel, (ii) heat, and (iii) oxygen.

Ran says “And I don't want to make any specific predictions about how far it's going to burn, because I don't have a clear sense of how burnable the world is.”

By analogously analyzing the fire triangle factors, I think we can begin to take apart the world that continues to provide heat, fuel, and oxygen for MAGAs.

Thoughts?

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[–] Crul@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

[Note: I'm not OP, just a random Ran Preieur lurker]

If Trump is fire, then oxygen is attention.

That makes sense to me.

For the fuel analogy I would suggest lack of trust in the current goverment institutions, or maybe the very unreliability of those institutions. I don't think this movement would have been as successful if existing societal structures were working properly.