No. of Recommendations: 7
From Slate's "The Surge"
Laura Loomer
One order of swing-voter kryptonite, coming right up.
A problem with Donald Trump, as a matter of high-level campaign strategy, is that he is an egomaniac who is unusually susceptible to flattery and will effusively associate himself with anyone who says something nice about him, even if that person is, let’s say, the country’s most prominent pro-Nazi livestreamer. Flattery is how J.D. Vance got to be the vice presidential nominee, for instance, and it’s why Trump’s traveling entourage currently includes a far-right online figure named Laura Loomer, a self-described white nationalist who does stuff like posting “jokes” about how Kamala Harris will make the country smell like curry because she’s Indian. (Over the summer, she called a Black member of Congress who had just died a “ghetto bitch.”) Trump likes Loomer, though, because she very vocally took his side against primary challenger Ron DeSantis. So he brought her to the debate, and then he brought her to meet firefighters in New York City on Sept. 11, even though Loomer is (of course) a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. That probably wasn’t the smart play on a day when the cat thing had already put a national spotlight on Trump’s history of amplifying off-putting conspiracy theories. But hey, think about the upside! (There’s no upside.)
She flattered her way into Trump's inner circle. Do you Trumpers see how easily manipulated he is? Think that is a good thing when dealing with our enemies?
Given the large amount of attention and bad press that Loomer is getting, my guess is she will soon go under the Trump bus.
