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No more euphemisms. Trump and his propagandists are working to engineer violent civil conflict, to persuade white Americans that they're on the losing side in a race war. The White House's handling of the "white power" tweet gives away the game. New piece:
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We have to stop using euphemisms like "Trump is stoking divisions." This depiction is too passive. Trump and his propagandists are actively encouraging supporters to see themselves as victims in a race war. They're using the government to feed this story:

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Kayleigh McEnany reportedly was ready to condemn the "white power" sentiment Trump shared -- but only if *reporters asked about it.*

That raises a question: Why must they constantly be *dragged* to this point?

That itself is its own form of signaling.

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Trump's new reelection strategy? More coronavirus denial! The AP reports the plan is to excite his base by cheering the reopening, even as coronavirus surges. But he's articulating a position held by around 35% of voters in all key swing states. New piece:
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Trump's campaign is betting that urging a rapid reopening will excite his base, the AP reports.

If so, his base is shriveling rapidly.

In the six swing states that will decide the election, support for Trump's stance is in the 30s. In all six of them:

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Trump advisers are developing a strategy that is unabashedly about targeting a shrinking minority and expressly eschews trying to broaden his appeal.

But as always, what's interesting is the underlying *assumptions* about what will appeal to his base:

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1) The big story in the remarkable new NYT poll is that there is a genuine anti-Trump majority in this country.

On the seismic events rocking the country, majorities disapprove of Trump. These majorities are multi-racial and cut across age lines.

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2) The Trumpist mythology is that Trump is whispering to a "SILENT MAJORITY" with his lies about coronavirus and his fearmongering and race-baiting on mass protests.

But on both these fronts, Trump is losing among *white* voters and even among *seniors.*

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3) The ugly subtext to Trump's mythology, is that even as he claims to represent a "SILENT MAJORITY" of Real Americans, he's actually trying to prevail through counter-majoritarian means.

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1) Trump's advisers are targeting a new scapegoat in order to shift blame away from his utterly catastrophic botching of coronavirus: The CDC.

This is deeply depraved on its own.

But there's a backstory here that simply must not get memory-holed.

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2) When Trump urged the premature reopening of states, which has helped produce the current spikes, he was defying his own CDC's guidelines and his own government experts!

The idea that Trump and his advisers would now shift blame to them is laughable.

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3) By my count, Trump has already blamed *nearly a dozen* other people, entities, or developments for his own towering failures on coronavirus.

Here's a list of his scapegoats:

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