Now you know what all those calls to Putin without any records on our side, they were talking about.
He is not smart enough to figure this out on his own. He needs lots of help from Putin.
He's actually following Putin's playbook. It worked in Poland, Hungary, and Turkey. In Turkey, the masses were cheering as their freedom was taken away. It's the same playbook.
1. Start supporting candidates that have extreme views. In the case of the US, get the Tea Party support by funneling money into the campaigns via surrogates.
2. Start a social media campaigns around the fringes that would be supportive to a specific candidate. In the US, this meant white supremacists, nazis, etc. Also support the fringe opposite groups. Goal is to get them to eventually clash.
3. Get a president candidate that you can control. Done with a $250 million "loan" to Trump through a russian oligarch via Deutchabank. Hasn't been paid back.
4. Inflame tensions with placing blame for ills on a group of people. In the case of Nazi Germany, it was the Jews. In the case of Hungary and Poland this decade, it was again the Jews and the Roma. In the US, it's the illegal immigrants. Use language that dehumanizes them so people think it's ok to mistreat them because they are evil and less than human. Use language that inflames the ignorant masses. In the US, it's appealing to the uneducated white males. They are too stupid to think for themselves and see what going on.
5. Create a conspiracy. In the case of Turkey, it was the Gulen community. It was manufactured pure and simple. But it created the need for law and order in the minds of the public and therefore made the emergency measures accepted by the public. No more democracy in Turkey. In the case of the US, it's the "deep state" conspiracy pushed by russian back trolls like QAnon, etc. You use this excuse to push out long time government leaders loyal to the United States and replace them with people loyal to the president. There is a big difference.
6. Use the radical groups to inflame tensions and create a "need" for law and order. Inflame tensions via minority groups that have historically been discriminated against. When they protest mistreatment by authorities, you use fringe groups hidden inside the protests to incite violence. In Trumps case, using the white supremacists to incite violence and and cause damage. Clearly seen on video in Minneapolis, Portland, Atlanta, and pretty much everywhere else. Those people have been traced back to white supremacist/nazi groups whose goal it is create a white controlled state. It also serves the purpose of deflecting attention away from the real purpose of the protests which is mistreatment of a minority group. In the minds of people, especially the rural ignorant white masses, it shows the need for "law and order" against those minorities which are nothing more than animals. "Just look at that destruction and looting!!" Except the coordination was done through fringe social media traced back to Russia.
7. Under the guise of "law and order" you start creating emergency proclamations that are illegal, but are allowed to continue because the legislative branches are controlled by a party whose leadership has been compromised. Mitch McConnell from Kentucky controls the Senate and therefore the GOP. He's clearly been compromised and has done numerous illegal activities including getting his wife placed in a position of power to push special projects to his state and this corporations that fund his campaign. Ron Johnson from Wisconsin is another that spent his past July 4th holidays in Russia and is blatantly doing Putin's bidding by interfering with investigations and pushing a false narrative that has repeatedly been proven false. But he keeps doing it because that is what his master wants. Yes, long term, they will be shown to be the traitors to their country that they are, but in the mean time, they are still in office and still doing Putin's will.
8. Create the narative that if the election is lost by Russia's candidate, it must have been due to fraud. By doing so, you create the justification for refusing to concede and also justification for interfering in the election in your favor. It's happening daily in the US. You see it with the head of the USPS, DeJoy, who is blatantly doing the will of Trump and Putin and doing everything he can to create mistrust in mail in voting and to defeat mail in voting.
It's all been done before and it works. You are seeing it now. Just realize that when you see a Trump sign, it's not a vote for America or Freedom or Democracy. It's a person that has fallen for the long term plan of Putin and Russia. Russia couldn't defeat the US and democracy during the cold war. So he has worked decades on perfecting other means of attack and it's highly effective. What you see in the Trump campaign is the seeds of Fascism and the end of democracy in the US. And Trump supporters are cheerfully going along with it.