It’s certainly not that. Tom Malinowski is not the color of someone that you tell to go back to his country, even though he, unlike the darker folks Trump attacked, is actually from another country.
You don’t have to be a racist to support Trump, but you sure do have to either forgive, or pretend to not see, a lot of racism in order to do it.
Trump’s “strategy” seems to be just to keep the circus music playing long and loud whenever he can. I can’t credit him for any grand ideas beyond self-aggrandizing posts on the one hand and shit-slinging at his opponents on the other. This is the guy who made fun of a disabled reporter in front of TV cameras and got fucking* grins and applause *from his supporters. He doesn’t need genius with people like that on his side.
Absolutely. “how can Trump get so many votes when he’s an obvious and unrepentant racist?”
Because many, many voters are unrepentant racists. (Sorry in advance for insulting any members of this board who feel that this targets them personally. It is not intended as such. And sorry if I am posting too many times for this thread. )
A Republican has spoken out against Trump’s racist tweets!
Rep. Will Hurd, the only African American member of his political party serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, said this:
On the other hand, Steve Mnuchin says: “I don’t find them racist.”
Steve Mnuchin, reality doesn’t depend on your idiotic opinion.
These Are the 29 Members of Congress Born Outside the United States
Complete list at the linky.
The foreign-born Pubbies are from UK, West Germany, France, Canada (Ted Cruz). No *shithole *countries there, eh? :dubious:
You’re projecting an awful lot.
I was looking at Twitter the last few days. Trump’s desperate attempt to distract from the Epstein case actually got several white moderates in Congress, Republican Justin Amash, & Hillary Clinton to defend Congress in general and ‘the Squad’ in particular. Trump may still have his bots & his racists on his side. But he’s unifying people against him, people who profoundly disagree with each other. He’s not dividing the Democrats. He’s making himself a target.
The Democrats are a messy, fractious coalition for internal reasons going back decades. There are Democrats who hate Bernie Sanders and Democrats who hate Hillary Clinton, and the party, left to its own internal divisions, could be expected to crack up. But Trump as president, more than he was as candidate, is so awful that he can unify them against him. He’s a big giant gift to those who are capable of seeing that.
But again, he’s focused on cryptocurrency.
The last President to be defeated for reelection was George H.W. Bush. Bush won in 1988 against Michael Dukakis, who might have been an even worse campaigner than Hillary Clinton. Bush received 48.9 million votes and won 40 states.
Flash forward to 1992. Bush received 39.1 million votes. Bill Clinton, the winner, and Ross Perot won all the rest.
Bush ran into a rough patch in the economy in 1992, but his bigger problem, IMHO, was that he had promised “No new taxes” during his 1988 campaign and then had to go and raise taxes. Conservative voters rewarded this rare moment of fiscal sanity by not voting for Bush.
To win in 2020 the Democrats need to a) run a candidate who’s at least marginally better than Hillary Clinton or Michael Dukakis, b) not go into the campaign like they did in 1968 (when the moderates won and the progressives pouted) and 1972 (when the progressives won and the moderates pouted), and c) convince a few voters who are fed up with Trump to simply stay home on election day.
Having said all that, I’m still not 100% sure the Democratic Party can manage to pull off all three things in the same year.
Fuck him.
Well, *you *seem mighty unhappy right now, sooooo…
What a dipshit motherfucker. If you’re not happy here you can leave… or, you know, I guess it’s possible that you could get elected to congress, too, and change the whole ballgame.
Fuck Donald Trump.
This is his 2020 campaign strategy.
And it will work like a charm.
While understandable, the actions of the four representatives may lose the Senate for the Democrats.
Sure, many people in red states will (probably) be willing to vote out Trump. But will they risk turning the Senate over to those they see as not respecting America?
…as the four representatives **do **respect America, and the only reason that people would think that they “don’t respect America” is the fact that the President of the United States is lying about them. if the Democrats “lose the Senate” the blame does not lie with the “actions of the four representatives”, but with the people who don’t vote for the Democrats and the President of the United States of America.
I think they have serious doubts about ‘these women and those like them’ and their worries were there long before Trump spewed forth. He knows who he’s talking to.
…so you agree with me that the four representatives you were talking about actually do respect America, and that their actions won’t be responsible for losing the Senate for the Democrats?
Do you think AOC implying that the top-ranked Democrat in the country is a racist is something that helps win the Senate?