Trump treats politics like a knife fight. Democrats can't pretend it's a garden party.
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This sort of thing is just what Trump wants , go the anguished wails. He’ll use it to fire up his supporters and inspire them to turn out in November.
Well, of course he will. Trump was inevitably going to seize — or concoct — some pretext to try to inflame the “Make America Great Again” crowd. He has sky-high approval among Republicans, but polls have consistently shown that Democrats have more enthusiasm for voting in the midterms — and Trump’s approval among Democrats and independents is historically low. Stirring up passion that brings out the base in big numbers is the president’s only play. And that’s something he happens to be good at.
A political strategy based on the idea that being unfailingly polite will somehow lull Trump supporters into a non-voting stupor is ridiculous. Trump is already out there holding rallies, whipping crowds into a frenzy of victimhood. Two years later, he’s still railing against Hillary Clinton and calling for her to be locked up. Two years later, true believers still chant and cheer.
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