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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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[–] leftist_lawyer@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago

Good take. Attention is the oxygen i think. The heat? The pent up anger of the populace having endured decades of what is essentially a neoliberal uniparty. The fuel, distrust in literally everything that comes down from on high ... be it government, academia, corporations, etc etc.