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Eugene

(61,592 posts)
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 11:40 AM Nov 2018

'Full Trumpism': The president's apocalyptic attacks reach a new level of falsity

Source: Washington Post

‘Full Trumpism’: The president’s apocalyptic attacks reach a new level of falsity

By Philip Rucker November 4 at 6:34 PM

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — President Trump is painting an astonishingly apocalyptic vision of America under Democratic control in the campaign’s final days, unleashing a torrent of falsehoods and portraying his political opponents as desiring crime, squalor and poverty.

As voters prepare to render their first verdict on his presidency in Tuesday’s midterm elections, Trump is claiming that Democrats want to erase the nation’s borders and provide sanctuary to drug dealers, human traffickers and MS-13 killers. He is warning that they would destroy the economy, obliterate Medicare and unleash a wave of violent crime that endangers families everywhere. And he is alleging that they would transform the United States into Venezuela with socialism run amok.

Trump has never been hemmed in by fact, fairness or even logic. The 45th president proudly refuses to apologize and routinely violates the norms of decorum that guided his predecessors. But at one mega-rally after another in the run-up to Tuesday’s midterm elections, Trump has taken his no-boundaries political ethos to a new level — demagoguing the Democrats in a whirl of distortion and using the power of the federal government to amplify his fantastical arguments.

In Columbia, Mo., the president suggested that Democrats “run around like antifa” demonstrators in black uniforms and black helmets, but underneath, they have “this weak little face” and “go back home into mommy’s basement.”

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'Full Trumpism': The president's apocalyptic attacks reach a new level of falsity (Original Post) Eugene Nov 2018 OP
But the worst part of it is that there are people who believe him. The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2018 #1
Yes, but they are getting fewer and fewer as each day goes by. We will prevail. nt SWBTATTReg Nov 2018 #2
He is pouring on thick The Genealogist Nov 2018 #3
O.K., here's the deal: just like the old aphorism that generals always fight the last war... machoneman Nov 2018 #4
Hear hear! BigmanPigman Nov 2018 #5

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
3. He is pouring on thick
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 12:33 PM
Nov 2018

Why, I don't know. His base is incessantly ratcheted up to 10, they'd walk over broken glass to do his bidding and pray at his altar. Another chunk of the country has been and will be diametrically opposed to him and will walk over broken glass to vote for anyone who will help stop him. The remainder either doesn't care what he says or is going to be turned off by him. How is this nonsense helping him?

machoneman

(3,951 posts)
4. O.K., here's the deal: just like the old aphorism that generals always fight the last war...
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 02:36 PM
Nov 2018

simply meaning they repeat only what they know from the past...and usually lose.

We should be glad that Trumpenstein is solely playing to his base. A fool indeed, as if he was smart, he would try to reach out to independents, wavering Democrats, etc. Those deplorables are already going to vote for him anyway. Instead, he's playing the same old fiddle in hopes that they will support him again. Maybe so, but along the way he's lost tons of voters due to his policies, brash statements, outright lies and more. It's just too bad the Presidential election was also held now as I'm quite sure he'd lose in a landslide even with the Electoral College votes.

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