Trump's new midterm strategy: Outrage

[Demovictory9]

Trump’s new midterm strategy: Outrage
The president's recent tweets claiming unfair bias are part of an emerging strategy to stir up enthusiasm among supporters.



President Donald Trump spreads misinformation. A lot of it. Really, a lot.

But every once in a while he will come out guns blazing in defense of the truth, demanding corrections and consequences for spreading falsehoods told by others, and using incorrect news reports to undercut the media as a whole.


He executed the well-practiced maneuver once again on Tuesday, seizing on images of detained migrant children in bare-bones holding areas that had been spread on Twitter to attack his immigration policies but turned out to have been taken in 2014 while President Barack Obama was still in office.

“Democrats mistakenly tweet 2014 pictures from Obama’s term showing children from the Border in steel cages,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Tuesday morning. “They thought it was recent pictures in order to make us look bad, but backfires. Dems must agree to Wall and new Border Protection for good of country...Bipartisan Bill!”


Then, hours later, came the broader indictment of the press: “The Fake Mainstream Media has, from the time I announced I was running for President, run the most highly sophisticated & dishonest Disinformation Campaign in the history of politics. No matter how well WE do, they find fault. But the forgotten men & women WON, I’m President!”

In recent months Trump has called for the firing of a Washington Post reporter over an inaccurate tweet, slammed the media for mischaracterizing his characterization of some immigrants as “animals” and called for ABC to fire Brian Ross over an incorrect report concerning the Russia investigation.

This kind of rhetoric is emerging as a central element of his 2018 and 2020 campaign strategies. Republican strategists, including officials behind Trump’s reelection effort, are operating under the premise that Democrats will be plenty energized for the midterms and 2020 elections — and they largely see their job as helping the GOP match, or exceed, that energy.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/29/trump-tweets-midterms-media-611597

[beachbum bob]

1. trump's antics only works with his base...2018 and 2020 will not be kind for GOP as

America is pissed and we are America

[HopeAgain]

2. I wish I could be as confident as you

We constantly underestimate the effectiveness of their propaganda.

[beachbum bob]

3. right now the shoe is on the other foot on underestimating how angry most of america is with

likes of trump, his criminal circle and the conservatives hellbent on destroying America. They have done something I have not seen in decades...angered the democratic base to action. Every special election since trump been elected PROVES that point.