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But mention these character and cognitive flaws to his supporters and they rationalize that life was better when Trump occupied the White House than it has been under President Biden.

But I think we imagined that the type of people who belong to the Economic Club of a major city might be able to rationalize their support for him in service of their portfolios but it is a bit surprising to realize that they actually like all the things they purport not to believe are true about him.

The so-called weave is now being used to rationalize his inability to keep a single train of thought or give a straight answer in an interview:

They “rationalize his rhetoric, by affording him a reverse benefit of the doubt. They doubt; he benefits.”

But superstonkers are undeterred: When the promised surge fails to materialize, they inevitably find some way to rationalize it—usually it’s evidence that their detractors on Wall Street are far more powerful than they’d ever guessed, and that they’ll just have to wait a week or two more to finally get the upper hand.