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Trump Settles on His Reelection Message
March 7, 2019 at 11:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard 206 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/03/07/trump-settles-on-his-reelection-message/
"SNIP....
Ron Brownstein: In his marathon speech to a gathering of conservative activists last weekend, Donald Trump unloaded more than 16,000 words, according to the official White House transcript.
But amid all the meandering and asides, the belittling taunts and geysers of grievance, Trump may have synthesized the essence of his reelection strategy in just three words toward the back end of his two-hour harangue: Ill protect you.'
With that concise phrase, Trump revealed volumes about his view of the electorate and the coalition that he hopes will carry him to a second term. The comment underscored his determination to convince his followers of a two-stage proposition: First, that they are under siege, as he put it, by an array of forces that he presented as either hostile to their interests or contemptuous of their values, and second, that only he can shield them from those threats.
....SNIP"
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)RockRaven
(15,003 posts)"I'll protect you" as a campaign slogan.
Subtlety has never been Donald's M.O., and seems to not to be valued by deplorables anyway.
Firestorm49
(4,037 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Can't protect us because he doesn't read his briefings.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Supernatural, as in claiming to be sent by a supreme being. Hes almost there, to actually say it allowed. Many of his cult followers have already hit upon this, and claim hes an instrument of their god.
Who knew Americans would take to fascism so readily?
trev
(1,480 posts)Plato. He claimed that democracy inevitably leads to tyranny.
applegrove
(118,792 posts)immigrant groups. Scare them away from each other. Too many people of colour in the urban ridings to do the white people are under attack thing. They've already test run it in Markam near Toronto. When the city of Toronto put up some illegal immigrants in hotels in Markam because of overflow, Chinese Canadians were given prepared signs and told to demonstrate against it. Some of them were crying on camara they were so afraid of illegal immigrants in their suburb and crime. Plus their is inclusive sex ed that will terrorize many newer immigrant communities. Point is the conservatives are going to have to keep this micro-targeted terrorism very local. If it makes the city news or the national news it will all come undone. Shhhhh! I am actually confident in newer Canadians. I was in the hospital visiting my dad when I overheard an orderly with an accent explain to a patient he was wheeling in that social programs in canada were mostly started in the early 1970s and to beware of the false narrative spread to undo them and us. That we have to stick together. Plus I've had a few immigrants (middle westerners originally) tell us we canadians are too kind. Too trusting. (I'm white) So hopefully those people will see through the conservatives like black people see through the GOP, with xray vision.
area51
(11,921 posts)says the abuser.
applegrove
(118,792 posts)tinrobot
(10,916 posts)Because everything he says is projection...
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)Because freedom, justice and prosperity are so hard.......
He forgot (in two hours) to tell us what he'll give us: a new war or two, lives full of new fears, more capitalistic servitude with worsening inequality, a destroyed environment, worsening health care, little or no chance of comfortable retirement....(list could go on for pages).
Sooo much winning......