I fear that Trump is actually loving the unrest and the violent protests.
First, it has taken media attention away from his criminally incompetent handling of the pandemic. The cable news nets were 24/7 on the crisis, 100,000 deaths, Trump urging people to inject themselves with disinfectant, etc. now they are overwhelmingly about the protests and unrest. (God forbid the media walk and chew gum at the same time.)
Second, it gives him a chance to play the tough guy, law and order, I’ll send in the military, looting/shooting, etc. which his base eats up. And it may attract back a few wavering suburbanites who were sickened by his pandemic response, but are scared seeing cities go up in flames on their TV screens.
He can’t respond to a pandemic, but he is a genius at demonizing and playing to the worst fears of a big patch of America.
His poll numbers were cratering, he needed something to change the conversation. This may be it.
I agree that Trump is back in his comfort zone, whipping up racial hysteria among his rabid white-grievance base. I conjecture that Trump’s comfort zone trumps every other consideration, and that it’s his adult day-care assistants who try to shape the aftermath of his demented outbursts into some kind of political advantage, with the assistance of cable pundits and the ever-watchful eye of the troll army.
I’m wondering if trump realizes he’s sitting on a petard with a lit fuse. Bellicose tweets aren’t leading, they’re threats to do violence and that adds to the problem.
A pandemic across the world, an absolutely bungled and fucked up response to it caused by trump himself issuing decisions that made it horribly worse (which he is continuing to do) the loss of tens of millions of jobs, people forced into changing how they can work and juggle family life, and an absolutely cratered economy and then capped off by the brutal and callous killing of a black man by 4 police has led to a boiling rage in America. Sorry about that run-on sentence… I haven’t seen this level of rage since the 1960’s. And this rage and the blood in the streets will continue as long as trump is in office. Those who said a few weeks ago that it would get worse the closer we get to the election were right.
If Trump did not have bone spurs you protesters would not have a a chance.
He and his unit of GI Joe dolls would have brought you American citizens to your knees.
Stephen Miller just shows him the pictures. “You see here back when you wouldn’t rent to Negroes and Puerto Rican’s. there was this very MAGA sheriff who used dogs very effectively”.
Early Roman accounts tell of Germanic women standing in formation before battle beating swords against their naked breasts and screaming challenges/obscenities.
This might get the attention of the White House and the media.
ThaT poliCe cop Should BE beating Him With bAtons AnD vicious Dogs, noT coddliNg him wiTh words. PrOtestors aRe luck Trump isn’t ouT there. Alpha TrUmp would punCh I’m in the nuts And shoot him in his BeTa cuck face.
I am heavily reminded what is was that I lived thru as a teenager in the early 60’s listening the the racists in my tiny home wide-spot-in-the-road (still doesn’t rate to be called a town) that boasted 3 businesses at the time. And then up the road 5 miles to a college town where I witnesses first hand non-violence training for the campaign to desegregate buses in Alabama and Mississippi. The same rage with a similar flavor. Only this time with a pandemic/cratered economy topping. (shitty metaphor I know but the day is still young where I live).
It worked for Nixon. It worked for Bill Clinton, too (remember his “Law and Order” campaign?) Gud Herr, when will we finally elect a a progressive woman as President?
