Over the past month, Joe Biden has opened up a double-digit lead over Donald Trump in national polls.
That same period witnessed the following milestones in American political life:
• For the first time since the movement’s inception, Black Lives Matter won the support of a large majority of voters — and a slim majority of white ones.
• The percentage of Americans who say that “racial discrimination is a serious problem,” that “police are more likely to use deadly force against Black people,” and that “white people are more likely to get ahead” all hit record highs in various tracking polls.
• For the first time in 55 years of polling the question, Gallup found more support for increasing immigration among the U.S. public than for reducing it.
• Pew...found that Biden boasts his largest advantage over Trump on [w]hich candidate voters trust to “effectively handle race relations,” and which one can “bring the country closer together.”
• ...Mississippi voted to retire the last remaining state flag featuring a Confederate emblem...[T]he murder of George Floyd proved sufficient.
• And Donald Trump concluded that the reason he is losing support to Joe Biden is that he hasn’t been nearly racist enough.
[That's our Bunker Boy! Go Trumpie! Go Trumpie! Puhleez be more racist as a strategy!]
That last bit isn’t mere conjecture. On Wednesday, three Trump confidants told Axios that the president regrets heeding Jared Kushner’s advice to broaden his appeal by embracing milquetoast police and criminal-justice reforms; as one source summarized Trump’s thinking, he wants “no more of Jared’s woke shit.”
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If one imagines Trump to be a rational political actor, it is difficult to make sense of these actions.
[Who imagines that? lolrof]
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...there is no evidence that [the Trumpbags] have been alienated by his failure to turn the racial demagoguery dial up to 11. (emphasis in original)
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In truth, Trump’s approach to the 2020 campaign is no more rational than his approach to COVID-19.
[Three times TODAY we OWAC'ers have been proved right.]
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In the present context, however, the fact that Trump is a maniacal narcissist and cable-news addict works to his detriment.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/trump-is-losing-2020-polls-racism-black-lives-matter.html
That same period witnessed the following milestones in American political life:
• For the first time since the movement’s inception, Black Lives Matter won the support of a large majority of voters — and a slim majority of white ones.
• The percentage of Americans who say that “racial discrimination is a serious problem,” that “police are more likely to use deadly force against Black people,” and that “white people are more likely to get ahead” all hit record highs in various tracking polls.
• For the first time in 55 years of polling the question, Gallup found more support for increasing immigration among the U.S. public than for reducing it.
• Pew...found that Biden boasts his largest advantage over Trump on [w]hich candidate voters trust to “effectively handle race relations,” and which one can “bring the country closer together.”
• ...Mississippi voted to retire the last remaining state flag featuring a Confederate emblem...[T]he murder of George Floyd proved sufficient.
• And Donald Trump concluded that the reason he is losing support to Joe Biden is that he hasn’t been nearly racist enough.
[That's our Bunker Boy! Go Trumpie! Go Trumpie! Puhleez be more racist as a strategy!]
That last bit isn’t mere conjecture. On Wednesday, three Trump confidants told Axios that the president regrets heeding Jared Kushner’s advice to broaden his appeal by embracing milquetoast police and criminal-justice reforms; as one source summarized Trump’s thinking, he wants “no more of Jared’s woke shit.”
...
If one imagines Trump to be a rational political actor, it is difficult to make sense of these actions.
[Who imagines that? lolrof]
...
...there is no evidence that [the Trumpbags] have been alienated by his failure to turn the racial demagoguery dial up to 11. (emphasis in original)
...
In truth, Trump’s approach to the 2020 campaign is no more rational than his approach to COVID-19.
[Three times TODAY we OWAC'ers have been proved right.]
...
In the present context, however, the fact that Trump is a maniacal narcissist and cable-news addict works to his detriment.
[Not in OTHER contexts, mind you, but the present context is just not a, hmm, "good fit" for the maniacal narcissist's skill set.]
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/trump-is-losing-2020-polls-racism-black-lives-matter.html
