At Mount Rushmore, Trump exploits social divisions, warns of 'left-wing cultural revolution'
Source: Washington Post
At Mount Rushmore, Trump exploits social divisions, warns of ‘left-wing cultural revolution’ in dark speech ahead of Independence Day
At the foot of Mount Rushmore’s granite monument to his presidential forebears, President Trump on Friday delivered a dark speech ahead of Independence Day in which he sought to exploit the nation’s racial and social divisions and rally supporters around a law-and-order message that has become a cornerstone of his reelection campaign.
Trump focused most of his address before a crowd of several thousand in South Dakota on what he described as a grave threat to the nation from liberals and angry mobs — a “left-wing cultural revolution” that aims to rewrite U.S. history and erase its heritage amid the racial justice protests that have roiled cities for weeks.
Praising presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, the men carved into the cliffs behind him, Trump declared that their legacies are under assault from protesters who have defaced and torn down statues. As he has done with increasing fervor in recent weeks, the 45th president denounced not just rioters and vandals but also much of the social movement that propelled the mass demonstrations in response to the killings of black men at the hands of police.
“The radical ideology attacking our country advances under the banner of social justice. But in truth, it would demolish both justice and society,” Trump said. “It would transform justice into an instrument of division and vengeance and turn our free society into a place of repression, domination and exclusion. They want to silence us, but we will not be silenced.”
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...lays the groundwork for attempts to overturn a November election loss...as in "we had to destroy American democracy in order to save it."
They heeded the call to worship their false prophet. They breathed and shared the viral pestilence screaming in hateful vengeance. They will leave to spread the disease to the innocents now as the moon waxes full.
And may heaven have mercy on their black hearts, souls and lungs.
That's our 'left-wing cultural revolution'.
There's absolutely nothing normal about tRump or GOP policy or the GOP cult.
And yes, Mr. tRump, "normal" means anti-fascism, anti-racism, anti-misogyny, anti-xenophobia, anti-sectarianism in government, anti-plutocracy, anti-militarism, and anti- most everything you're done while in office.
KY.....
What a setup with HIS cabinet, Barr and Moscow Mitch and crue, eh?
Doomed to 1.21.21 it still appears.
