When Trump trys to divide the nation now, the Lion's share splits against him

[Tom Rinaldo]

Polarizing politics drives people into opposing camps, and Trump is forcing almost everyone who is increasingly upset by the raw division of our nation into a camp whose unifying feature is: Opposition to Trump's continued Presidency. He is locking those who are not already part of his base into a counter base against him. Those who are not already "inspired" by his hate filled rhetoric increasingly despise it, and no one new is being drawn toward it.

[The Magistrate]

1. Indeed, Sir

'Heightening the contradictions' is a strategy with two edges, and you have to be right about which one will cut when you employ it. Otherwise, you will be the one who bleeds.

[Tom Rinaldo]

3. Ah, "heightening the contradictions", a flashback from the past for me.

I remember when I used that phrase with some regularity. Entirely apt in this context.

[Andy823]

2. Exactly!

You are either a trump cult member, or you hate his guts. He can keep using the same old tactics that got him elected in 2016, but that only helps him with the base.

He has shown his true self, and the vast majority of the country don't like what they are seeing.