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applegrove

(118,792 posts)
Thu Mar 7, 2019, 10:37 PM Mar 2019

Trump Settles on His Reelection Message

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: ‘I’ll 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"

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Trump Settles on His Reelection Message (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2019 OP
WHO will protect US from YOU ? Haggis for Breakfast Mar 2019 #1
It's hard to be more explicit that your whole schtick is fear-mongering than choosing RockRaven Mar 2019 #2
Sounds like Hitler. Firestorm49 Mar 2019 #3
I'll rob you blind. Corgigal Mar 2019 #4
Squaring up his fascist dictator stance. He's on the verge of claiming himself supernatural. VOX Mar 2019 #5
"Who knew Americans would take to fascism so readily?" trev Mar 2019 #7
In Canada the conservatives are going to have to micro terrorize different applegrove Mar 2019 #6
"I'll protect you" ... area51 Mar 2019 #8
Exactly. applegrove Mar 2019 #9
I'll project you tinrobot Mar 2019 #10
He'll protect us against freedom, justice and prosperity... KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2019 #11

RockRaven

(15,003 posts)
2. It's hard to be more explicit that your whole schtick is fear-mongering than choosing
Thu Mar 7, 2019, 10:40 PM
Mar 2019

"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.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
5. Squaring up his fascist dictator stance. He's on the verge of claiming himself supernatural.
Thu Mar 7, 2019, 11:53 PM
Mar 2019

“Supernatural,” as in claiming to be sent by a supreme being. He’s almost there, to actually say it allowed. Many of his cult followers have already hit upon this, and claim he’s an instrument of their god.

Who knew Americans would take to fascism so readily?

trev

(1,480 posts)
7. "Who knew Americans would take to fascism so readily?"
Fri Mar 8, 2019, 01:25 AM
Mar 2019

Plato. He claimed that democracy inevitably leads to tyranny.

applegrove

(118,792 posts)
6. In Canada the conservatives are going to have to micro terrorize different
Fri Mar 8, 2019, 12:34 AM
Mar 2019

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.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,494 posts)
11. He'll protect us against freedom, justice and prosperity...
Fri Mar 8, 2019, 02:14 AM
Mar 2019

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......

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