Itulah repotnya kalau narcissist racist anarchist dictator jadi presiden,
lebih memilih negara hancur demi dirinya terpilih lagi.
On Tuesday, July 7, 2020, 08:58:08 AM PDT, kh djie [email protected]
[GELORA45] <[email protected]> wrote:
July 7, 2020
Stephen Collinson and Caitlin Hu
'We are in free fall'
To save his presidency, Donald Trump may tear America apart.
Trump is not even pretending to hide the divisive racial rhetoric on which he’s
anchoring his bid for a second term.
He’s running to keep the Confederate flag
— seen by many Americans as a symbol of slavery — flying. He’s guarding statues
that honor generals who took up arms against the United States. He has attacked
a Black NASCAR driver and even slammed the Washington Redskins football team
for finally looking for a less offensive name.
Without a strong economy to carry him through reelection, Trump is picking the
most polarizing fight possible: He hopes enough Americans will agree that their
White culture is drowning under a multi-ethnic tide for him to run an election
campaign on racial grievance. Over the weekend, he turned one of the few
nonpolitical moments in American life -- Independence Day festivities -- into a
pageant of paranoia, claiming that Marxists, radicals and anarchists are
roaming the country and far-left fascism is taking over newsrooms and America's
education system.
There was an outburst of apolitical violence at the weekend -- including the
heartbreaking deaths of six children in gun violence -- but the America under
siege that Trump describes is largely a fantasy. Most pollsters and many
Republicans think that while Trump’s arguments strike a chord among millions of
conservatives, the “Silent Majority” that he invokes is not sufficiently large
for him to win reelection on their votes alone -- and that he is alienating
moderate Republicans..
The efficacy of Trump's tactic will emerge only in November. But it is already
clear that the President is running the most openly demagogic campaign in
America’s modern history. And it will leave wounds that will take years to heal
by whoever wakes up in the White House next January 21.
