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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,005 posts)
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 08:07 PM Jun 2020

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.

We’re engaged, he said, in a tremendous “struggle for the future of our country.” It’s 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. Trump’s words came from a playbook that has worked well in the past: They’re 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. They’re tearing down statues, desecrating monuments and purging dissenters. It’s not the behavior of a peaceful political movement; it’s the behavior of totalitarians and tyrants and people that don’t love our country. They don’t love our country.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/column-trump-full-demagogue-mode-201523070.html

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Trump was in full demagogue mode on Tuesday. It was terrifying (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 OP
Working up the ranks of the stupid and deluded for brownshirt recruitment. Thomas Hurt Jun 2020 #1
It is amazing how... Newest Reality Jun 2020 #2
We love our country Butterflylady Jun 2020 #3
The people that believe I_UndergroundPanther Jun 2020 #4
Pay attention to Trump when he says the economy is going down the drain if he is not reelected. keithbvadu2 Jun 2020 #5
How is this different from any other day? regnaD kciN Jun 2020 #6
He isn't smart enough to pull it off now that the economy COLGATE4 Jun 2020 #7
In other news, water is wet, and the sky is blue. lastlib Jun 2020 #8

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
1. Working up the ranks of the stupid and deluded for brownshirt recruitment.
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 08:11 PM
Jun 2020

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)
2. It is amazing how...
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 08:12 PM
Jun 2020

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).

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,472 posts)
4. The people that believe
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 08:14 PM
Jun 2020

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)
5. Pay attention to Trump when he says the economy is going down the drain if he is not reelected.
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 08:28 PM
Jun 2020

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.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
7. He isn't smart enough to pull it off now that the economy
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 08:51 PM
Jun 2020

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)
8. In other news, water is wet, and the sky is blue.
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 12:47 AM
Jun 2020

Grass is also green.

Demagogues gotta demagogue.........but it still appalls me that ANYBODY wanted this thing to be POTUS!

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