Analysis: Trump unveils the most extreme closing argument in modern presidential history | CNN Politics
Analysis: Trump unveils the most extreme closing argument in modern presidential history | CNN Politics
Donald Trump anchored his bid to win a second White House term next week on searing anti-migrant fear at a rally at Madison Square Garden, doubling down on his promise for a massive deportation program on Day 1 to reverse an “immigrant invasion.”
This is the paradox of tolerance in action. In a world where bigotry is a tolerated political position, you will allow people to vote for bigotry.
It is, in part, because the WW2 generation is dead. They’re no longer here to offend. They’re not here to yell at anyone and shut them down for the level of disrespect they express, all around, with their bigotry. They are memory, and that war was their memory, so a lot of the social constructs around the causes of and the winning of that war have faded.
The last political interaction I had with the WW2 generation was my grandma. Born in the 30s.
Trump caught Covid.
I told her that probably the best thing that could happen for the entire country and its future would be if he died from it.
He'd be dead, his movement would at least be stymied for a while from his loss, possibly lead to more moderate, less QAnon Repubs ending up as most influential in their party...
... it would expose him and other MAGA people (all freaking out over how Covid wasn't real of whatever, masks are bad) as moronic hypocrites, killing themselves over insane nonsense beliefs...
...and it would have the benefit of removing Trump without direct intervention of an assassin or something, making a reactionary martyrdom movement around him less likely.
She's a liberal. Watches Bill Maher.
She pearl clutches. How could you be so crass as to wish for the death of a political opponent?!
I explain that he is a fascist, fueling a violent fascist movement that will persist for decades at best, which will result in the end of democracy, and horrific violence and poverty very soon, at worst.
She throws up her hands. Ridiculous! How can you say that, they're fringe, this will all fizzle out once he's gone, Biden will fix all this!
I say Biden, if he wins, won't have both the Senate and the House, he'll only be a marginal stabilizing force, but he's too moderate to do anything like a New Deal which is what we need.
Also, you are very, very much underestimating the amount of people spewing increasingly violent right wing rhetoric online... you don't know about it because its on the internet, the news you watch and read downplays it, isolates it, or just misses it entirely. Here, I can show...
She isn't interested .
...
Some months later, Jan 6th happens.
How could this happen?
They’re no longer here to offend.
Immigrants, queer people, women, the disabled: all right here to offend, to their faces. But bigots don't care.
I'll accept that bigots in some way care about who they offend when you don't get black bigots who hate black people, woman bigots who hate women, immigrants bigots who hate immigrants, queer bigots who hate queer people, and so on. There are people who talk to the kinds of people they are offensive about and towards every day, and they don't care. "I'm right," they say, "you're just triggered."
The ex-president’s blistering anti-migrant rhetoric ranks alongside the most flagrant demagoguery by a major figure in any Western nation since World War II. But it was also complemented by a sharp economic argument that represented the second leg of Trump’s closing pitch and targeted the frustration of many Americans who are struggling with high grocery prices despite cooling inflation.
Absolutely fuck you CNN. Full stop.
Ah yes, he complemented demagoguery with sharp demagoguery.
Both things are demagoguery.
Also, good thing they mention WWII. Hitler did the same in speeches. As all fascist did.
Through Lenin, Stalin to Kishi.
whatever happened to that south american "caravan" that was supposed to take over the whole country a while back?
Still in its way for another 9 days.
My healthcare plan is coming in two weeks!
They turned around when they saw the shit hole they were heading to.
Does the Trump campaign honestly believe that Harris is the current president?
Probably.
By what measure?
By GDP we already have the greatest economy in the history of the world by a large margin.
- United States: $25.43 trillion
- China: $14.72 trillion
- Japan: $4.25 trillion
- Germany: $3.85 trillion
- India: $3.41 trillion
- United Kingdom: $2.67 trillion
- France: $2.63 trillion
- Russia: $2.24 trillion
- Canada: $2.16 trillion
- Italy: $2.04 trillion
He gets more shitty as he gets more desperate. He knows the lawsuits coming for him if he loses.
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