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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumswhat donnie is doing is not actually about the midterms.
in traditional political terms, what donnie is doing is called "sucking the oxygen out of the room".
he's grabbing the spotlight and taking it away from republicans who he theoretically should be trying to help.
of course, donnie would say that he's getting his own base excited, then asking them to vote for republicans to support him in congress.
however, that's traditionally done by making a *brief* appearance at a rally *for the congressional candidate*, and spending most of the time talking about how great the *congressional candidate* is.
donnie, instead, is making it all about himself (as usual), and actually making it hard for the candidate he's supposedly trying to help get any visibility.
fact of the matter is that most republicans have largely resigned themselves to losing the house, though probably holding on to the senate. both these outcomes are at this point highly likely (obviously anything can happen, but both these outcomes are well over 80% likely). donnie probably doesn't care, at least not nearly as much as any other president would, because he doesn't really try to pass much legislation anyway. he rules by executive order and twitter, and the midterms won't change that.
no, what this is really all about is furthering his white supremacist agenda, and pushing us further down the path toward genocide.
the normalization of violence is not a bug, it's a feature of his agenda.
he's setting the stage for more partisan and bigot-based violence.
that's what his rallies are all about.
magicarpet
(14,175 posts)... he will flip the switch.
Rather than inciting fear and hatred,.. he will whip up violence and mayhem in society to get his way - come hell or high water.
He cares not about ramifications or the damages his actions cause.
gordianot
(15,245 posts)This is about power and how to keep it, elections are just a tool. By all accounts Trump should be penniless and destitute.
unblock
(52,331 posts)once he has that, elections don't really matter; in any event, he can win them by force, through disenfranchisement, suppression, rigged counting, etc.
he's trying to create a white supremacist society, and he knows he can't win that through the popular vote, so he's trying to do it through propaganda and violence.
MFM008
(19,820 posts)We were going to do that anyway.....
Initech
(100,104 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)If only we could get that lucky.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,234 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)And the media is being played by him daily, and are complicit showing his propaganda and lies .