Right where he wants them:

Why are Senate Dems torpedoing their own gun bill? Answer: Because it might pass — and this tells you everything you need to know about Washington DC. When Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) first proposed the Fix-NICS act last November, he had four members of each party as sponsors, calling it “the most important piece of bipartisan guns legislation since Manchin-Toomey.” The bill would plug the gaps in reporting by federal agencies to the background-check system, failings that contributed to the fatal church shooting that month in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Now, though, Democrats have spent their first days back from recess rejecting Fix-NICS, and even Murphy doesn’t want a stand-alone vote for his “most important” bill… If it comes to the floor, Fix-NICS would almost certainly pass for two reasons. One: It addresses an actual problem that actually contributed to a mass shooting… For years, Democrats have struggled to balance calls from the party’s base to push for stricter gun-control laws with electoral realities that see the party struggling to maintain support in rural areas of the country, where support for gun rights is stronger — and where groups such as the National Rifle Association often succeed in attacking Democratic candidates.

People thought Trump’s comments were a mistake. They weren’t. Don Jr. and Erik are our guys. They are NRA to the core. The President is also our guy, and a gun owner himself, and I am sure the President doesn’t move on guns without consulting Don and Erik too. His comments were a play.

It becomes clear the more you view everything, especially enemy behavior, through the prism of amygdala. Increase amygdala-anger and your enemy rises up. Crush it, and they settle down to sleep. In contrast, increase amygdala-fear and amygdala-aversion, and you can drive your enemy into a corner, and make them afraid to act. Everyone knows this and acts based on this at some level, but seeing it purely clarifies the perspective. You goal is to minimize anger, and maximize fear/aversion. That is what Trump did.

Scott Adams has said Trump is the chaos President. Politicians want certainty and stability to minimize fear. They want to do something, and do it knowing the exact parameters of everything which will affect it.

The Democrat plan was to have their safest politicians push for gun control, have it shut down by Republicans, and then go into the midterms invigorating their base’s amygdala-anger by blaming the Republicans for no gun control happening. Enraged and motivated, Democrat turnout would have been sky-high.

The planners based the plan on certain metrics they assumed were stable. Uber-leftists in safe districts could be relied on to push for aggressive gun control. Republicans and Trump could be relied on to shut it all down. And mildly rightist Democrats could then be told to support the gun control tepidly, with the assurance nothing would happen to anger their rural districts and motivate their opposition to turn out.

The plan began exactly as conceived, the Democrats even rolled out a plethora of teens to push vocally for the gun control which stood no chance. Media spun up a storm, to raise amygdala-anger at the failure that was to come.

And then up popped Trump, the chaos President, saying he wanted to go even further, and this was a Democrat opportunity to do all sorts of gun control, with his support. He even wanted to abandon due process, and seize guns first, and worry about rights later.

What does the left say to that? Now if they push for the gun control and get it, they lose their rural districts. If they don’t push for it and don’t get it, they demoralize their base and crush their turnout. Democrat leader’s amygdala-fear is rising, because they have no idea of the parameters of Trump’s response to anything.

And in the process Trump appears ultra-moderate and independent to the lemmings in the nation who only watch things cursorily, while the left is less motivated to turn out to oppose him because their amygdala-anger at him is plunging.

The Democrat response? Kill everything themselves and shut it all down.

Now ask yourself what the Democrats will do the next time this type of thing comes up. If ultra leftists at the top are using false flags to advance gun control, Trump has just made it so dangerous to try that he may have destroyed all utility the false flags offered them, and prevented the creation of more in the future.

It is so brilliant, just in retrospect. He has raised the leadership’s amygdala-fear, paralyzing them as he removed the base’s amygdala-anger which was needed for motivating turnout.

But it is even more indescribably brilliant when you realize it was conceived beforehand, fully understood and predicted, and rolled out as a plan. Trump just added 5 percentage points to every conservative’s vote count in the election this fall.

Don’t doubt that President Trump is our guy, or that he functions on a level we can barely understand, even in retrospect.

Tell everyone about r/K Theory because it is almost as brilliant as /our guy