Natascha Strobl (English)

And at the end, understanding and empathy like with a child: we love you and I understand your anger. It's all just not de-escalation. It's just a recall, but no distancing at all. Trump sees it as legitimate. This is the president of the United States.

That's exactly what makes this so appealing: you're not just a simple guy and at the mercy of uncertain circumstances you can't act on, but a hero of the story fighting evil. You get destiny and depth. Always talking in superlatives.

Here's a quick #NatsAnalysis of Trump's statement. It's only a minute long and that's a stark contrast to Biden. He's doing the sandwich approach again. He hides what he needs to say between what he actually wants to say. In order:

@realDonaldTrump You want to know what Trump is doing with all of this. Here is a (rather long, apologies) thread on his rhetorical maneuvers when it became clear he will not win this election. twitter.com/nat_strobl_eng…

I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!

Here is the original thread in German. I do these kind of things regularly in German of you are interested.

Phew, thanks for reading and listening, that was a long analysis. But it shows us in 20 minutes how this type of political rhetoric and thus this type of ideology and strategy work: every attack is fended off with a counter-attack. At the same time, one is a victim.

OK, let's look at the Trump statement from last night I'm about to share so we can go over it together. What is Trump doing here rhetorically? What is he doing here? And why? He uses a few tricks here. Let's look at this together and decipher them. #NatsAnalysis #NatsAnalyse