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How Trump Can Capture the Anger and Get a Big Win in November
I’m angry.
I’ve always been interested in politics more than the average person; obviously, it’s why I made commenting on politics into a career (of sorts). When Democrats jammed through Obamacare, I was mad. When Democrats tried to destroy Brett Kavanaugh, I was incensed.
None of that anger compares to what I feel at this moment. My level of rage is unhealthy levels of bad. I see friends trying to salvage their businesses, their entire life’s work, with their hands tied behind their backs by politicians. I am seeing friends burying their loved ones, and they’re telling stories like this:
My mom passed away this morning and I wasn’t able to say goodbye last night. https://t.co/CRtljXk4GD
— Autumn Johnson (@LegallyAutumn) June 15, 2020
I buried my parents and my grandparents. I know what it’s like. And yet, I cannot fathom this. I cannot imagine losing my mother, father or grandparent and being kept from saying goodbye. Being told I can’t have a memorial service or funeral, and meanwhile, thousands of people are marching through the streets.
We need to feel like our President hears us and understands our anger at how unjustly our governors and county executives are treating us. While this was happening in Brooklyn, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was tweeting warnings to businesses trying desperately to stay afloat:
The violation complaints are predominantly from Manhattan & the Hamptons. Lots of violations of social distancing, parties in the street, restaurants and bars ignoring laws.
Enforce the law or there will be state action.
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 14, 2020
And while he was doing this, the Mayor of New York City was doing this:
Marching with @etcnyorg during today’s East Harlem Pray and Protest, I felt the urgency and pain of this moment — but also confidence that change will come because of the spirit of this movement and because in this city we affirm that #BlackLivesMatter. pic.twitter.com/XlgqzZ4pxt
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) June 14, 2020
President Trump needs to be a clear counterbalance to these hypocrites. He needs to tell Americans burying their loved ones and their businesses that he is here to fight for them, and he will fight for them for the next four years.
President Trump is taking up the fight in the wrong way.
Cramming 10,000 people in an arena to shout and cheer in close quarters to one another for hours on end, three days in a row — and then send them back to all 50 states — is running a pretty high risk of significantly spreading the virus. https://t.co/gM8j3ICZ7K
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) June 13, 2020
It’s not that coronavirus isn’t a thing, and it’s certainly not a good idea to hold a large indoor rally of this kind. It could end up killing the very people he needs to turn out for him; and that won’t be a great way to engender support.
So what can he do? Hold the rally outdoors (we’ve seen thanks to the guinea pigs marching through the streets that outdoor transmission isn’t nearly as dangerous) and tell Americans: “They’re destroying your business. They want to wreck the economy to wreck me. You elected me because you knew you needed a fighter, someone who would fight against the Left. But even I didn’t know how low they’d stoop. That they’d destroy your business, keep you from your dying mother, and be responsible for the introduction of the very virus that did it into her nursing home. In the next four years, there is no telling the lows they will stoop to, and you’re going to need me more than ever. And I’m here for the fight and I’m here to help you rebuild. We can’t let them win, don’t stop fighting with me and for me.”
That kind of messaging would have me, who was NeverTrump in 2016, knocking on doors in swing states with bleeding knuckles working on his reelection.
Published in General
The Saturday before last, we had a local BLM “child-led” march, child-led meaning their parents put them up to it. Anyway, one of the signs held by a white kid was “White silence is violence.”
Oh really? Maybe a white person saying something blacks don’t agree with will get his house burned down, or his family assaulted – even if it’s the truth. Say the wrong thing and a person could lose his job over a threatened march on his employer’s business.
And now we have a defund the police movement. I friend of mine just sent me the following:
“The wolf has somehow convinced the sheep that the sheepdog is the dangerous one and that he must be removed. I pray for the sheep when the sheepdog is gone and the wolf has the sheep all to himself.”
One big difference of course is that many of the sheep are armed and capable of dispatching the wolf. The problem is there are enough sheep who would put the defender sheep on trial for murder.
I agree there is the likelihood of a silent majority turning out in big numbers this November. “Defund the police” has been solidly linked to the Democrat party, and they are desperately trying to distance themselves from it – too late.
I think one of the answers is “The Children” – as now being discussed, schools will not be open in the fall for the benefit of “The children.” They will be opened – I think – in ways that will be convenient for the privileged adults. The planning is being done purposefully out of the eyes and ears of parents. As you wrote in your recent column @bethanymandel, there seems no better way to destroy a generation of children that what is planned for the already inept public education system. Maybe that should be Issue # 2 for the Campaign: School for The Children.
I’d rather our kids were uneducated than the maleducation they’re receiving in most public schools right now. They’d be better off if they went outside to play every day.
I love your idea @bethanymandel of holding outdoor rallies. It sure looks like there will be plenty of MLB ballparks available to rent all over the country.
Accusing these people of hypocrisy is a futile and ineffectual thing to do.
Cuomo may not be a hypocrite in this, and his public health “experts” certainly aren’t. They sincerely believe that “systemic racism” is a greater danger to the public health than COVID-19.
It’s not that they all of a sudden think that public gatherings are safe, they think that people getting COVID-19 while destroying a greater public health threat are nobly endangering themselves to do something more important than the real but lesser risks to themselves, their families, friends and coworkers. Think of the civil rights marchers risking their lives and safety as they confronted the dogs and clubs and worse.
And because people want to feel that they’re doing the right and socially approved thing, some of the rioters and thugs feel virtuous while they’re rioting and thugging; a movement that encourages this is highly dangerous.
The true believers are the real threat.
It’s funny how these public health officials didn’t raise the alarm until the George Floyd incident. If it wasn’t important enough to proclaim before Floyd’s death, then it’s either not important or outright phony.
If people like Andrew Cuomo are still truly worried about coronavirus infections, they’re locked into their coalition’s embrace of cancel culture, and don’t want to be cancelled themselves for pointing out the potential COVID infections that could results from the mass gatherings. If they’re not truly worried about the contamination, then they simply want to retain the power the fear of infections gave them over the public, but again, don’t want to use that power against people who, via the use of victimology and race cards, could cancel them for attempting to control one of their main voting blocks.
Trump and his people apparently fall into the latter category on the seriousness of summer COVID infections. They seem to expect any new cases from the rallies to be limited and/or asymptomatic, while the rallies and the media’s hyperbolic negative reactions to them offer up a contrast-and-compare to swing voters, in terms of how Democratic pols are treating them versus how they’re treating the most militant of the George Floyd protestors.
I agree Trump should use outside stadiums for his rallies to emphasize the hypocrisy of the Democratic party and the media.
I think you’re missing the forest for the trees.
Correcting systemic racism requires the total transformation of society. The organizations (Antifa, OFA, the Chinese operation, BLM) were in place, the youth were indoctrinated, plans were made but a pretext was needed to generate the will to violence. Sooner or later one would again be provided; it happened to be in Minneapolis. If nothing had happened over the summer, a Trump victory in November would have been it. But Floyd died, and at that point somebody made the decision and the balloon went up.
Total transformation > COVID > civil liberties/capitalism/liberal democracy.
That’s going to be a hard message for him to send. It’s not like all of the restrictions that were implemented to deal with the virus came from the left or that politicians on the right have handled it perfectly. He can certainly point out the rampant hypocrisy that’s happening, but the question is whether he can do it in a way that moves swing voters to his side. Of course even if he does manage that he’ll have to keep them on his side. Unless someone else takes over his Twitter account I don’t see that happening.
Not really. There is no correcting “systemic racism”, there isn’t even a definition for it.
They desire the power over society, period.
Well, you were Never Trump in 2016, and while it’s great you are no longer in that camp, you still have a ways to go before casually dispensing advice to him and those of us who’ve been quite angry at the corrupt, phony Democrats for a while now. Welcome.
See, it happens when you are directly affected and/or you have sympathy for those who’ve been treated so unfairly. Until now, that wasn’t really you.
People lose jobs, the President you voted for gets endlessly investigated and falsely charged. You are labeled a racist misogynist and xenophobe. Republicans who were supposedly allies are campaigning for Biden and advancing leftist narratives. Trump could hold rallies in a gay bath house as far as I’m concerned.
My advice is you have to get just a little bit angrier to the point where you are entirely unconcerned with our
opponentsenemies pathetic attempts at logic.I wonder if we’ll see a COVID comparison between George Floyd protesters (rioters, looters, arsonists) and Trump rally attendees (knuckle-draggers, Bible-thumpers, Neanderthals) . . .
I agree with what you say, but I’ll restate my comment in more direct terms. These public health officials who proclaim “systematic racism” and “white supremacy” are bigger threats than COVID are lying, dog-faced pony soldiers. Is that better? Hehe . . .
Since de Blasio and some other Dems are specifically telling contract tracers not to ask people if they have attended any George Floyd protests, my guess is we’re going to have very unspecific result of the former, and far more precise numbers for the latter, and that the unspecific results will be estimated down as much as possible, unless the number of new infections in specific locations becomes too high to ignore. Then it will be blamed on systemic racism in America, and not on people ignoring the COVID safe distancing warnings, with some mandatory Trump-bashing thrown in.