To save his presidency, Donald Trump may tear America apart

[Leanne778]

May tear it apart? He's already done that.....

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.


https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/world...ntl/index.html

[testsubjectalpha]

Snowflake, what is it that you hate so badly about General Robert E Lee?

May tear it apart? He's already done that.....

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.


https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/world...ntl/index.html

[Mister D]

You have to wonder if Leanne nods her empty head with a straight face when she reads this junk.

[gamewell45]

May tear it apart? He's already done that.....

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.


https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/world...ntl/index.html

If we survived Richard Nixon, we can survive Trump as distasteful as it may be. I always thought he was a wack job; his nieces book reveals quite a bit about him and his dysfunctional family. I haven't read the book, but have listened to excerpts and it is very telling.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN24938C

[Mister D]

Low brow reading.

[Cletus]

If we survived Richard Nixon, we can survive Trump as distasteful as it may be. I always thought he was a wack job; his nieces book reveals quite a bit about him and his dysfunctional family. I haven't read the book, but have listened to excerpts and it is very telling.

You are assuming most of it is true.

[gamewell45]

You are assuming most of it is true.

Are you assuming most of it is false?

[MisterVeritis]

Are you assuming most of it is false?

It's CNN. Of course it is false.

[testsubjectalpha]

Do you get your self identity from an elected politician?

[zelmo1234]

May tear it apart? He's already done that.....

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.


https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/world...ntl/index.html

First I still don't know which one of the Confederate Flags we are banning, The left still does not want to admit that they didn't know that there were over a dozen of them, and that the dismantling of History that is going on right now is likely to cause this same ignorance in another group of Americans and by forgetting that heritage it might just be possible to gain full control over black people again.