There's an interesting dissonance here; he praises Putin for being a strong leader, a good leader, but then he compares himself to Navalny. How does this even work in his mind? If Putin is good and strong, then surely Navalny should have been killed for opposing him, right? And where does that leave Trump, if he's like Navalny?
Gotta think about him in delusional terms it's the only way anything makes sense. Even then it's hard to wrap your head around. Maybe we need to take some shrooms.
Trump wants cover from putin and his loyalists will spout what ever it is he says; true, false, incoherent, or otherwise. Say something enough, like you're the enemy of your only ally, and enough people will believe it so that no one else questions it.
To me the single uniting thread between all the different narratives Trump attempts to weave is simply: he thinks the vast majority of voters are really, really dumb.
Sadly, given that he consistently has the absolute support of about 1/3 of the Republican party (about 1/6 of the country), and the moderately strong support of another 1/3 of the Republican party, that's not the far from reality.
Your idea is right, but your numbers about population are wrong. Republicans definitely don’t make up 50% of the country given that your voter turnout for presidential elections tends around 50-60% and many who vote Republican in a given year are independent or swing voters who aren’t rusted-on voters. It’s hard to get a 100% clear number on it, but I’d estimate that Republicans only make up around 20-25% of the country at most.
It only seems like they’re 50% of people because they win a lot of elections, but a lot of that has to do with the Electoral College, First Past the Post voting, and a lack of mandatory voting coupled with low voter turnout.
Logic and consistency don't figure in Rapey's mind, just rhetoric and feels. He loves power; Putin is in power and is the boss of a corrupt state, so he admires Putin. Navalny is oppressed, but still admired and loved, and Rapey feels oppressed by the lawsuits and criminal charges against him, so he compares himself to that as well, never mind that Navalny was never in power.
As far as i can tell this blathering mouth-breathing monkey never says anything. People spend tons of energy trying to attribute meaning to the grunts and farts this turd emits.