Trump has one small problem. His mentality is stuck in the 80’s when the world was his oyster. Here’s an example. Referring to white suburban women as housewives is not the way to endear himself to them, as they have said out loud in interviews. Neither is telling them that their already largely integrated suburbs will be overrun with brown and black people if they don’t elect Trump to keep them safe.
But that’s just how his old ass rolls. And now he’s apparently paying a political price for it. Since the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, and fueled by the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Trump has grabbed onto the lifeline of the extended protests, but especially the largely outside agitator fueled sporadic violence sprinkled into peaceful protests to brandish himself as the law and order candidate. Sure, if your vision of law and order is Bull Conner in ’50’s Alabama.
Here’s how it works. Trump still has wet dreams of flipping Minnesota, a state he narrowly lost in 2016 to Clinton. Somehow tie Biden to the violence in Minneapolis, and offer yourself as the salvation they’ve been looking for. Trump pretty much must hold Wisconsin to get reelected. Do the same thing with the violence in Kenosha, and ride the white backlash to reelection.
But it’s not working. After spending his whole damn convention preaching the law and order mantra, laser focused on Minnesota and Wisconsin, the latest polling shows that Trump is still -9 in Minnesota, and -5 in Wisconsin. He hasn’t moved the needle one iota.
But the news just got worse for Trump. A new poll today showed that all of Trump’s bluff and bluster has had its intended effect. The poll shows that 65% of Americans list law and order as a critical issue. And yet when asked who would be the better candidate to handle law and order, the polling went 52-48 for Biden! How can this be possible, that Trump can be the law and order tough guy, but people trust the Milquetoast Biden more with the job of administrating it?
Because Trump is vapor locked mentally in the 1980’s. In Trump’s mind, going all the way back to law and order Richard Nixon, law and order has traditionally meant fucking over minorities. And that’s exactly how Trump presents his brand of law and order. But what Trump doesn’t realize is that while support for the BLM movement may have softened slightly in the after effects of the sporadic violence in Kenosha, the paradigm has shifted.
New York Timers opinion writer Mara Gay put it perfectly today, when she said that what has happened is that the concept of law and order has changed. People still know full well what law and order is, and they want it. But after witnessing the horrors of the Floyd and Blake videos, as well as watching their own children and grandchildren taking to the streets to protest it, they want their law and order without the casual violence to minorities that it so often entails. And Trump’s own words on the subject are driving them to Biden.
I have never seen such a pathetically mismanaged campaign in my life. Trump is poised to be the first GOP President in at least a generation to lose the active duty military vote. Trump desperately needs to woo back suburban white women that he lost in 2018, and yet every word that comes out of his mouth simply reaffirms why they left him in the first place. And now, he takes a campaign issue that has been a standard GOP talking point since Nixon, and whiffs yet again. Yes folks, as it says in the old poem, Mighty Casey has struck out.
Richard Nixon is one guy whose playbook Trump follows, and the other one is George Wallace.
More Wallace than Nixon, I’d say. And further back, in the various Southern governors and LEOs. (Strom Thurmond comes to mind.)
E-gads, in Trump’s current state of mind, with myself and others wondering which memory system is actually functional, short term seems to be a wind driven leaf one day, hardly an hour gets him lost to something he just said, and when questioned about some of his most recent comments, the slack jawed response in barely concealed panic as he tries to assemble alternate explanations …
Now, as stated here by the Murf the older than dirt stuff of those painful, “LOSER”, days of the worst sweat-hog on TV, as a plan now would, naturally, require a smart person that could use those ideas as a root to grow into a modern version, tuned to what language is common now, utilizing the waves of public feelings and wants and fears … he only works with the self aggrandizing, blaming and fears, he has no social skills, no intelligence, basically a sedentary fat guy with no limits to his outrageous uncaring attitude towards virtually anyone other than his daughter … his current miss-steps in lies and loud explanations at rants of disparaging Biden/Kamala with personal, vile rhetoric, shows a very scared, worthless turd …
I believe people also see that the law and order president doesn’t believe in law and order for himself or his cronies. He’s pardoned some of the biggest liars and lawbreakers in history. His hypocrisy is glaring.
He is not wooing anyone back! What is he going to do? He is a goner.
His old test the waters, with a statement, leaning on crowd approval as he muddles through one of his rants, always raises a noisy response from the peanut gallery behind him no matter what he says … I listen to the surrounding, “crowd”, for a rumble/mumble or something more, like a wave of approval … there have been a few duds out there when he said awful things about personal family life of others, which, to me, says an awful lot more about Trump’s complete lack of caring, something that will probably be his undoing in the long run …
It cannot be much longer, he is at that point where he has NOTHING left, not enough cash, $100 million going into Florida for Biden …. and Trump is just standing there with his huge balloon full of BS gas, and Biden there with a big balloon busting needle ….
Sporadic violence in Kenosha may have softened support for blm,but in the wake of new videos produced by law enforcement, support may firm up again. (What’s with law enforcement who continue to create just the sort of incidents that ignited the protests in the first place?) This one, a traffic stop of a Lyft driver, results in the beat-down of an innocent passenger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIGcjlCcv24&feature=youtu.be Story here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/13/georgia-deputy-punching-black-man-traffic-stop-roderick-walker Trump supporters will claim that he was resisting arrest because he knew he had outstanding warrants, but the deputy did not know that before the beating and there was no probable cause for an arrest. And besides even if the deputy knew (he didn’t), a beating is not necessary. And this one, where they throw a little Chinese journalist to the ground. https://twitter.com/josie_huang/status/1305331513592967168 Story here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/14/la-sheriffs-josie-huang-npr/ The number of times that police reports have been inaccurate means that every police is no longer prima facie evidence for the prosecution. Any and all defense lawyers now have cause to interrogate and discredit police reports.
What kind of police work requires questioning passengers in what amounts to a taxi, for problems *with* the taxi? They neither own nor control it.
“What do you do when your dream comes true/And it’s not quite as you planned?”–Eagles, “After The Thrill Is Gone”
And this, mind you, barely take into account the horrors that will be uncovered like a mass grave from now until Election Day.
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