Fogdog
Well-Known Member
This isn't 2016. Trump is not an outsider without a track record. Even before he fumbled the ball when coronavirus reared its ugly head in fall of 2019, he was doing poorly and the economy was running on fumes with manufacturing already in recession.
2020 has been a complete and total disaster for Republicans. Their willingness to do Trump's bidding is their own downfall.
I held a completely different view on the 2016 election, when I was very nervous and concerned. This time, it really is different.
For example, this well grounded opinion piece that, yes, states an opinion but backs it with solid reference data. Right wing MAGA hats, take notice. This is how liberals work.
Trump’s frantic new effort to win back seniors is already failing
Here’s President Trump’s new reelection strategy, in a nutshell: Convince vulnerable seniors who rightly fear getting killed by the pandemic that Trump let rampage out of control that they should instead fear getting killed by criminals who would supposedly rampage out of control in a future post-police dystopia that is entirely invented.
The author give examples of Trump's rhetoric:
Trump just announced a plan to dispatch more federal law enforcement into Democratic cities without the assent of local officials — while offering numerous lurid exaggerations about urban crime and the supposed “radical movement” to “dissolve” police departments.
Meanwhile, at Wednesday’s coronavirus task force briefing, he blamed the current explosion in cases on Mexico and those protesing police brutality, while continuing to urge a rapid reopening of schools and businesses, even though rapid reopenings are plainly a key cause of the ongoing surge.
He gives his opinon on what Trump's objectives are in those statements:
What’s the connecting thread between these two? One is elderly people.
Lest you think he's just riffing like a Republican, he zigzags back to what Trump is saying:
You can see this in Trump’s campaign ads. He is running a new spot that depicts an elderly woman calling the police in terror as a marauder circles her house like a vulture, only to find that in “Joe Biden’s America,” the police are no longer there.
In recent weeks, Trump’s campaign has spent $20 million on the ad and others like it. But that ad is based on a lie: It falsely claims Biden would defund the police. Tellingly, if you listen closely, you’ll note that the person who voices this lie is Trump’s chief propagandist, Sean Hannity.
Then he summarizes his thesis about Trump's panicky new ads:
The fear of death hovers over that ad. It’s no accident that this comes as Trump is bleeding support among seniors, very likely due to his catastrophic mishandling of the virus, because they have the most to fear from it. One threat to seniors is supposed to magically supplant the other.
With the thesis now presented he backs his opinion with facts:
The most recent Post/ABC News poll found that Americans trust Biden over Trump to handle the coronavirus by 54 percent to 34 percent, and they even trust Biden over Trump to handle crime and safety by 50 percent to 41 percent.
Remarkably, this is also true among voters age 65 and over: They trust Biden more on the coronavirus, 52 percent to 39 percent, and they trust Biden more on crime and safety, by 51 percent to 44 percent.
Another recent poll, from Yahoo News/YouGov, paints a more mixed picture, but it’s still bad news for Trump. It finds that seniors think Biden will do a better job than Trump on the coronavirus by 44 percent to 39 percent.
It's a beautiful opinion piece. Too bad for Republicans that it devastates their fact free statements and bluster.
In all the tossup states that Trump needed to win in 2016, he's losing badly to Biden. In TEXAS, he's dead even.
Trump is losing in the suburbs, the cities, he's losing with all women, he's a joke among black people and hated by Latinos. College educated men have abandoned him too. Did I mention that his bungling of the epidemic lost support of seniors?
This isn't anything like 2016. In 2020, Trump loses and drags the Republican Party down with him. I'm saying it with my chest out. Disagree with me if you want but I'll laugh at the Republican tool who doesn't have facts at his side when he does. Face it guys, the only ones supporting Trump in any meaningful numbers are less educated white guys. There are a lot of that kind and I'm not saying they have valid grievances. It's just that Trump has failed them.
He's going to get his head handed to him this fall.
2020 has been a complete and total disaster for Republicans. Their willingness to do Trump's bidding is their own downfall.
I held a completely different view on the 2016 election, when I was very nervous and concerned. This time, it really is different.
For example, this well grounded opinion piece that, yes, states an opinion but backs it with solid reference data. Right wing MAGA hats, take notice. This is how liberals work.
Trump’s frantic new effort to win back seniors is already failing
Here’s President Trump’s new reelection strategy, in a nutshell: Convince vulnerable seniors who rightly fear getting killed by the pandemic that Trump let rampage out of control that they should instead fear getting killed by criminals who would supposedly rampage out of control in a future post-police dystopia that is entirely invented.
The author give examples of Trump's rhetoric:
Trump just announced a plan to dispatch more federal law enforcement into Democratic cities without the assent of local officials — while offering numerous lurid exaggerations about urban crime and the supposed “radical movement” to “dissolve” police departments.
Meanwhile, at Wednesday’s coronavirus task force briefing, he blamed the current explosion in cases on Mexico and those protesing police brutality, while continuing to urge a rapid reopening of schools and businesses, even though rapid reopenings are plainly a key cause of the ongoing surge.
He gives his opinon on what Trump's objectives are in those statements:
What’s the connecting thread between these two? One is elderly people.
Lest you think he's just riffing like a Republican, he zigzags back to what Trump is saying:
You can see this in Trump’s campaign ads. He is running a new spot that depicts an elderly woman calling the police in terror as a marauder circles her house like a vulture, only to find that in “Joe Biden’s America,” the police are no longer there.
In recent weeks, Trump’s campaign has spent $20 million on the ad and others like it. But that ad is based on a lie: It falsely claims Biden would defund the police. Tellingly, if you listen closely, you’ll note that the person who voices this lie is Trump’s chief propagandist, Sean Hannity.
Then he summarizes his thesis about Trump's panicky new ads:
The fear of death hovers over that ad. It’s no accident that this comes as Trump is bleeding support among seniors, very likely due to his catastrophic mishandling of the virus, because they have the most to fear from it. One threat to seniors is supposed to magically supplant the other.
With the thesis now presented he backs his opinion with facts:
The most recent Post/ABC News poll found that Americans trust Biden over Trump to handle the coronavirus by 54 percent to 34 percent, and they even trust Biden over Trump to handle crime and safety by 50 percent to 41 percent.
Remarkably, this is also true among voters age 65 and over: They trust Biden more on the coronavirus, 52 percent to 39 percent, and they trust Biden more on crime and safety, by 51 percent to 44 percent.
Another recent poll, from Yahoo News/YouGov, paints a more mixed picture, but it’s still bad news for Trump. It finds that seniors think Biden will do a better job than Trump on the coronavirus by 44 percent to 39 percent.
It's a beautiful opinion piece. Too bad for Republicans that it devastates their fact free statements and bluster.
In all the tossup states that Trump needed to win in 2016, he's losing badly to Biden. In TEXAS, he's dead even.
Trump is losing in the suburbs, the cities, he's losing with all women, he's a joke among black people and hated by Latinos. College educated men have abandoned him too. Did I mention that his bungling of the epidemic lost support of seniors?
This isn't anything like 2016. In 2020, Trump loses and drags the Republican Party down with him. I'm saying it with my chest out. Disagree with me if you want but I'll laugh at the Republican tool who doesn't have facts at his side when he does. Face it guys, the only ones supporting Trump in any meaningful numbers are less educated white guys. There are a lot of that kind and I'm not saying they have valid grievances. It's just that Trump has failed them.
He's going to get his head handed to him this fall.
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