(Yup. I'll explain)
The targeted Congresswomen (& others) warn that Trump's latest racist tweets and remarks are an attempt to distract from his inhumane policies.
vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/a…
Others suggest they’re an attempt to distract from Epstein. . .
washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump…
His base doesn’t mind if he's cruel to brown-skinned people, or a racist or a sexual predator.
huffpost.com/entry/bannon-f… h/t @AliaGvR
Is anyone sputtering: “but what about family/Christian values”?
Evangelical values are about the hierarchy: Keeping women in their place.
Sexual exploitation helps with that. See👇
For more on his strategy of doubling down on his hardcore base, see Tweet 8 here:
Because Trump’s strategy is to keep his base excited, I suggest that more likely, his tweets were a response to his devastating loss on the census citizenship question:
cnn.com/2019/07/16/pol…
He was sending a message to his base. . .
Don't let this get buried: Trump lost on the citizenship question.
Also: npr.org/2019/07/16/742…
Trump lost in court and accepted defeat on an issue that would done much to create white-minority rule.
Autocrats don’t lose in court.
The losing part may be what he doesn’t want you to see.
The point of Russian active measures wasn’t just to get Trump elected, it was to “undermine democracy, to make Americans lose confidence in our democratic institutions . . . “
pbs.org/newshour/show/…
Trump also wants you to lose confidence in democracy.
Maybe that's why he doesn’t want you to notice that democratic institutions are holding out—and he is losing.
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