Trump is encouraging a corporate-backed astroturf 'uprising' against his own COVID-19 guidelines

[marmar]

Donald Trump threw another tantrum this week, maniacally tweeting in all caps, “LIBERATE MICHIGAN,” “LIBERATE VIRGINIA” and so on. On their face, the tweets amounted to the Commander-in-Chief inciting rebellion, which is a felony.  The regime naturally denied this interpretation, but as NBC reported, the message “pushed many online extremist communities to speculate whether the president was advocating for armed conflict, an event they’ve termed ‘the boogaloo,’ for which many far-right activists have been gearing up and advocating since last year.” What could go wrong?

As crazy as all of that seems, it’s easy to overlook the fact that Trump was encouraging people to rebel against state governments for complying with Trump’s own stay-in-place guidelines. While he “has expressed confidence in recent days that some states with smaller outbreaks could begin a return to normalcy even before the April 30 expiration date for the administration’s most recent social distancing guidance,” according to Politico, it is obviously not yet April 30. This is roughly akin to an unhinged, dimwitted Abraham Lincoln urging South Carolina to secede.

But coherence, or lack thereof, doesn’t matter. This entire “uprising” is a propaganda campaign coordinated by the Republican Party, various corporate-funded advocacy groups and “the Proud Boys, conservative armed militia groups, religious fundamentalists, anti-vaccination groups and other elements of the radical right,” according to The Guardian, and promoted relentlessly by Fox News and other conservative media outlets.  The Michigan protest, for example, “was organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition, which Michigan state corporate filings show has also operated under the name of Michigan Trump Republicans. It was also heavily promoted by the Michigan Freedom Fund, a group linked to the Trump cabinet member Betsy DeVos.” .......(more)

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trump-is-encouraging-a-corporate-backed-astroturf-uprising-against-his-own-covid-19-guidelines/

[malaise]

1. And there are still people who think he is sane

He is stark raving mad and dangerous to boot

[doc03]

2. He pretends to be following guidelines and

encourages the deplorables to protest against them.
In his mind he wins either way. If the states act too fast and it backfires he can say they didn't follow his guidelines. If it works out ok to open things up he will take credit for the guidelines.

[Newest Reality]

4. Yes,

Note that he seems to say many things and they can be purposefully contradictory.

The strategy is to have enough stock of them for later on when he and the Right-Wing Pravda can cherry pick what they need to blast out when it is expedient for them.

We already see that, but it is just future fuel. Salvos of fallacies for the camPAIN. It's deliberate and shrewd, plus it fills the agenda for confusing the population to prepare them for a full dictatorship. Some are baffled, other's hear what they want to, some angry at this or that, etc. It's part of the divide and conquer, or in this case, the Trumpco Country Vegamatic, it slices and dices.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

3. If he can't use his "unlimited authority" to open the states, he'll do it by

encouraging protests (and possibly riots) against the governors until they do it his way. Then, if s state's infection and death rates spike again, Trump doesn't have to take any responsibility because, "The governors insist they have complete power in their states."

[doc03]

5. He lies and flip flops so much they can have a

quote of him saying anythng. That can also work for us.

[Blue Owl]

6. Can ya' believe this guy?