Trump was in full demagogue mode on Tuesday. It was terrifying
Trump was particularly repugnant on Tuesday, as he set forth the themes of his 2020 campaign to supporters in Phoenix. It was also a terrifying signal of how he intends to divide the country further to try to hold on to his job.
Were engaged, he said, in a tremendous struggle for the future of our country. Its the struggle against an oppressive left-wing ideology that is driven by hate and seeks to purge all dissent and which will take over the country if Joe Biden is elected president.
Trump sounded like many fear-mongering demagogues before him, but he sounded like no one so much as Sen. Joe McCarthy fighting, exhorting, fulminating against a monolithic, un-American enemy. Trumps words came from a playbook that has worked well in the past: Theyre coming for you, his words implied. For your towns, your homes and your freedom. I can protect you.
The radical left, they hate our history, they hate our values, and they hate everything we prize as Americans, he said in Arizona. The left-wing mob is trying to demolish our heritage so they can replace it with a new repressive regime that they alone control. Theyre tearing down statues, desecrating monuments and purging dissenters. Its not the behavior of a peaceful political movement; its the behavior of totalitarians and tyrants and people that dont love our country. They dont love our country.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/column-trump-full-demagogue-mode-201523070.html
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)He doesn't have to organize them yet. They organize themselves in militias, minutemen, KKK, etc. groups.
They are already killing cops, driving cars into people, attacking mosques and churches, albeit sporadically.
What happens when their god king loses.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)It is amazing how, in a mirror, he clearly outlines his plan for the country if he is allowed to continue. It is so exact and he projects it onto the left.
It is not hard to see that at all, if you look and listen.
I take those lines very seriously when I consider what he is up to and will do to our nation. You talk about alarming. He alone can and will persecute us all, according to the Predator Grump decoder ring, (I got it in box of Sugar Frosted Corruption Flakes).
Butterflylady
(3,544 posts)It's you that we hate!!!
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,472 posts)That shit trump bellows from his ass.. will get a comeuppance.
And when that comeuppance happens it wont be what they expect and it will be painful and deadly if they push it too far. They will be dealt with as the traitors they are.
They will get all what they deserve. Deserving of every bit of pain and humiliation or even death they'll get.
Because there are more of us,than them.
keithbvadu2
(36,814 posts)Pay attention to Trump when he says the economy is going down the drain if he is not reelected.
He is telling us what shape he will leave the country in.
Despite his excuses, Trump gets full credit for any bad in the economy just as he takes full credit for any good in the economy.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)is in virtual free fall and the pandemic is gearing up for Round II of Phase I. The mouth breathers that usually hang on his every racially-charged word are looking at their lack of jobs, lack of money and seeing the boys at the Beer Hall struggling to breathe through a ventilator and are getting scared. They won't vote for Biden but I doubt they'll drag themselves out to vote for DumDum again. He's only offering them the sequel to 2018 and that movie bombed.
lastlib
(23,238 posts)Grass is also green.
Demagogues gotta demagogue.........but it still appalls me that ANYBODY wanted this thing to be POTUS!