He didn’t offer much ... in his 98-second statement, other than a thoroughly debunked non sequitur about “millions and millions of people pouring into our country right now from prisons and from mental institutions, terrorists.”But that's not a non sequitur for Republicans. Here was Tucker Carlson yesterday:
"Import the Third World, become the Third World" is a reference to judge Juan Merchan, who has lived in America for more than half a century but spent the first six years of his life in Colombia. Or maybe it's an attempt by Carlson to bamboozle his followers into believing that the jury in the Manhattan courtroom was full of disreputable foreigners from inferior countries -- in fact, the only foreign-born jurors appear to be a salesman originally from Ireland and a Lebanon-born retired wealth manager.
It's not clear who's going to kill Trump before the election, according to Carlson -- maybe troops from the mythical Chinese migrant army Trump believes is surreptiously crossing the Mexican border? Or am I wrong that this is about immigration -- does Carlson believe instead that President Biden will punch Trump to death, possibly by ganging up on him in a dark alley along with that other young tough, Maxine Waters? Note that we hear Waters and Biden at the outset of the following video, and watch Biden clench his fist at the end of the clip. In between are other members of Biden's alleged gang, including pro-Palestinian demonstrators (who actually hate Biden):
Trump might die, and "you and your family" might die, and the blame falls on people from less developed countries, or evil Democrats/liberals/leftists who want America to be just like those countries:
Guilty on all counts. The Democrats have succeeded in their years long attempt to turn America into a third-world shithole. November 5 is our last chance to save it.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 30, 2024
I know everything I'm writing seems ridiculous, but your Fox-obsessed uncle believes it 100%.
I suspect the verdict won't matter much in the presidential race, but I wonder if I'll be wrong about that because of the apparent Trump strategy, which is to pitch the post-verdict message only to MAGA loyalists. Trump can't win solely with cult voters -- he needs the swing voters who are gravitating toward him because there seems to be more war these days and groceries cost more. A few of them might be alienated by this verdict, unless he keeps them on his side. Or maybe he doesn't need to try -- they just want change, and they'll vote for him anyway. But if there's a chance they're wavering, he's not doing much to try to win them back. It's an all-base strategy. I hope that's a huge mistake.
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