I think Trump is playing poker: (from Politico) In the poker world, there's a name for the style of game Trump plays, New Yorker writer and poker champion Maria Konnikova 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.

Trump's poker game would be fatally compromised by his inability to manage his emotions. "He would take any loss as a personal slight, and play even more recklessly as a result," she said. A player like Trump remains confident as long as he's raising the stakes, but goes wobbly when the stakes get raised on him. "If you're going to be an aggressive player, you have to be willing to go all the way. Trump seems unable to, and that is a crucial weakness in the game of strategic back-and-forth," she said.

This seems like it explains his bullshit better than anything else. I think he might also be angling to for a post election pardon to end all the lawsuits, civil unrest and chaos he intends to undertake.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.