Democrats are handing Trump the opportunity to run on popular economic policies that they could not get done. Policies that target the suburbs.
— Adam Jentleson 🎈 (@AJentleson) October 27, 2021
"I alone can fix it." https://t.co/9ZQHiyFX3M
Do Democrats not realize that Trump can very easily run on the popular stuff they're removing from this budget package? Not all of it, obviously, but the guy endorsed making Juneteenth a holiday right before the 2020 election. https://t.co/fcRD7NunA7
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) October 19, 2021
Trump's advisers might recommend that he run on these popular items, and he might mention them, as he mentioned preserving Medicare and Social Security in 2016. Or he might forget to mention them. Or they might not even be part of his stump speeches, because Trump knows what sells to his base, and he probably won't employ anyone on the campaign who'd be inclined to tell him that he needs a conventional package of positive promises in order to win.
We know what he'll run on.
He's going to run on building the wall, jailing Hunter, auditing the 2020 election, banning CRT, arresting members of Black Lives Matter and Antifa, and dealing with some as-yet-unknown moral panic that will be cooked up with Koch money and promoted on Fox starting in 2023. https://t.co/mkz2DGSuJx
— Steve M. (@nomoremister) October 27, 2021
He'll also run on this:
Tucker Carlson previewed a trailer on Wednesday for an upcoming three-part series....
Called “Patriot Purge,” Carlson explained, “The U.S. government has in fact launched a new war on terror, but it’s not against al Qaeda, it’s against American citizens. Nothing like this has ever happened in the history of our country. This is an attack on core civil liberties and it’s essential that you know what’s happening and that you resist it.”
... On Wednesday, the Fox News host played the trailer.
“The domestic war on terror is here,” alleges a man’s voice. “It’s coming after half of the country.”
Carlson himself appears and says, “The helicopters have left Afghanistan, and now they’re here at home.”
“The left is hunting the right,” alleges another voice. “Sticking them in Guantanamo Bay, for American citizens, leaving them there to rot.”
Apparently Fox News is letting Tucker Carlson do a special on his conspiracy theory that January 6 was a "false flag" pic.twitter.com/dYngE77L4r
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) October 28, 2021
Trump will run on a promise to turn the tables on the people prosecuting January 6 rioters -- he'll vow to put President Biden, Attorney General Garland, and a significant portion of the FBI in prison. (If he's elected, he might really do it.) He'll say this, and his crowds will go wild.
Maybe everyone will realize what we've allowed to happen on January 20, 2025, when Trump delivers an inaugural address that's indistinguishable from one of his rally speeches, and includes Trump-led chants of "Fuck you, Biden!" and "Lock him up!" By then, I hope we'll all understand that Trump and Republican voters simply aren't interested in conventional politcal promises. All they care about is vengeance.
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