In Trump's new version of American carnage, the threat isn't immigrants or foreign nations.
In Trumps new version of American carnage, the threat isnt immigrants or foreign nations. Its other Americans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-trumps-new-version-of-american-carnage-the-threat-isnt-immigrants-or-foreign-nations-its-other-americans/2020/07/04/f1354fa6-be10-11ea-8cf5-9c1b8d7f84c6_story.html#click=https://t.co/ri77DEFkdD
By David Nakamura
July 4, 2020 at 6:20 p.m. EDT
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In his inaugural address, President Trump sketched the picture of American carnage a nation ransacked by marauders from abroad who breached U.S. borders in pursuit of jobs and crime, lured its companies offshore and bogged down its military in faraway conflicts.
Nearly 3½ years later, in the presidents telling, the carnage is still underway but this time the enemy is closer to home other Americans whose racial identity and cultural beliefs are toppling the nations heritage and founding ideals.
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Peter Wehner, who served as a speechwriter for president George W. Bush, said Trump faces an obvious difficulty as he seeks to fan public fears over renewed American carnage given that he has been responsible for the stewardship of the country for more than three years.
Its an insight into him: He doesnt view his job in terms of governing. He just views it as a platform to vent and be angry, Wehner said. Hes not just appealing to the base, but hes appealing to the base of the base. The aperture of the campaign is constricting, not expanding hes energizing a smaller and smaller group of angrier and angrier Americans. And to try to energize that base, he has to say more and more extreme things.
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