Trump's racist campaign is terrible strategy but effective short term tactics
Cable news, political news sites, political discussion boards are all up in arms about what Trump said about the Redskins, NASCAR, Making Bubba apologize and so on.
It is a losing strategy but it is a tactic that is keeping him in the water and in the mix.
If everybody is talking about these shiny objects then what are we not talking about:
1) A pandemic disaster
2) Russian bounty for murdering American soldiers
3) 101 other graft stories (remember how the head of OPM was caught lying before Congress about Trump ordering the killing of the long sought over bipartisan agreement to exchange the Hoover building for a VA campus that would allow all of the FBI to move to a single campus, without costing a dime. This deal which had been a decade in the making would have put a 5 star hotel next to Trump's).
There are literally hundreds of these stories that have just floated by because people are talking about how stupid it is for Trump to talk about the Redskins or the Confederate monument.
4) The politicization of the DOJ
5) The collapse of the EPA
6) Criminal prosecutions related to the Trump foundation, and on and on
Here is an example of a very important story that gets no oxygen in Trumps shiny racist object mobile:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flint-water-crisis-effect-on-children-60-minutes-2020-07-05/
Before the crisis, about 15% of the kids in Flint required special education services. But of the 174 children who went through the extensive neuro-exams, specialists determined that 80% will require help for a language, learning or intellectual disorder.
It is looking like a substantial number of children affected by the lead in the water in Flint are going to be effected with a language, learning or intellectual disorder.
So in order to keep the bad news from the nation's attention he goes with crazy shit. Monument destruction, flag burning, and so on.
Have Kanye West declare for Presidency. Despite having not filed in any state it sucks a little more attention, oxygen out of the room.
Think of it as treading in water. He's just trying to keep people off of serious subjects by pushing their buttons on race. Keep him close enough. Wait for an over reaction. Wait for someone to move from Confederate statues of war criminals to declaring that the Washington and Lincoln Monument must come down. And so on.
He is thinking, "keep my folks riled up, keep them distracted from real crimes, try and provoke an over reaction, and in October we will let loose a surprise".
People speculate that it will likely be some counterfeit charge against Biden but that will be hard to produce and relies on lots of outside specialists.
We should expect false flag operations. i predict a lot of flag burning and other provocations to rile up the wacko right with urban confrontations and Trump bringing in troops to restore order and try and convince enough people that without him chaos will threaten them.
Its not likely to be successful but they have nothing else.
His racist tweets are intended to keep people agitated so they are talking about what he wants and not on the serious crimes, bad practices and policy failures that have been presented every day of his administration. Its why when they ask him for his policy initiatives for the second term he has nothing to say, he can't very well say that he plans to exterminate the riots that are going to erupt in October.
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