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Trump’s strategic attack on ‘The Squad’ unfolding as he planned americanthinker.com/blog/2019/07/t…
Republicans can be labeled racists with impunity and America can be trashed as irredeemably racist, evil, and shameful. But any criticism of “people of color” for expressing such views is racist, as Nancy Pelosi discovered so recently.
President Trump cares not a whit about the criticism he receives for violating those norms. He believes those rules of the game slant the conversation toward victories for the Left, eagerly enforced by the Media, academia, and the cultural institutions dominated by progressives.
He also knows people who already believe him to be a vulgar, racist, unacceptable “occupant of the White House” (as Omar called him yesterday) will criticize anything he says. So, there is no loss to him in provoking more criticism from that camp.
The key group that he must worry about are the undecided voters who swing elections, and the much-vaunted suburban women, who shun harshness and who live in neighborhoods where Trump may be less than popular
I think that Trump is calculating that in any contest between The Squad and Trump in terms of alienating these persuadables, sustained attention will favor him. Yesterday’s press conference by The Squad, which has received obsessive media coverage, made that bet pay off.
Tucker Carlson last night made a congruent point: that by attacking The Squad, just as Nancy Pelosi and the Dem Establishment were putting distance between themselves and the radicals, Trump has forced them back together, and made The Squad the public face of the Democrats.
This morning, President Trump drove the point home in two tweets, preforming political jujitsu on calls for the House of Representative to censure him, when they couldn’t get it together to censure obvious anti-Semitism from Squad members.
