Dr Grump
Platinum Member
The worst thing Trump has done? That’s easy in my eyes... he pours gas on the fire. Blames and attacks and belittles and plays tough guy instead of acting with understanding compassion and trying to draw a sense of unity. A good leader would work towards the latter. But Trump is Trump and he’s got a campaign to win so he’ll stay in that mode
Yep. Exactly.
Because without Floyd's murder and the ensuing protests, we'd be talking about Covid-19, and 40+ million unemployed, and the Orange dunce doesn't have a clue how to deal with that, and he certainly cannot win on these issues. So, posing as a strongman, bible in hand (!), belittling and denigrating and criminalizing the protest while belittling and seeking to humiliate the governors, is the way to go. He doesn't really have a role in any of that (governors are the ultimate security authority in their states), but posing and creating a spectacle around himself, he can. If that enrages the protest even more, and prolongs it all, all the better, for we're still not talking about Covid-19, and 40+ million unemployed.
I disagree. Before COVID-19 I thought he might have a chance of winning. After COVID-19. No way. Now? Fuck, he'll be lucky if he's going to be their nomination. Once it has all calmed down and COVID has too (I'm guessing two months) we're already in August. Election is in three months after that. He will get a few states thanks to his Deplorable base, but he is fucking toast. I would go so far as to say a lot of people, maybe not him, will go to jail.