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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 02:47 PM Jul 2020

Trump's attacks on Biden make a dystopian shift

From ‘Sleepy Joe’ to a destroyer of the ‘American way of life,’ Trump’s attacks on Biden make a dystopian shift

President Trump has launched a slash-and-burn campaign against an exaggerated caricature of his Democratic opponent, casting former vice president Joe Biden as a destroyer of basic freedoms and a threat to voter’s safety who would “let terrorists roam free” and “abolish the American way of life.”

His new dystopian vision, with militant and extreme language not typical in American politics, marks a sharp departure from Trump’s previous effort to cast Biden as “Sleepy Joe,” an establishment politician with deteriorating mental abilities. It marks the latest effort, orchestrated by the Trump’s advisers, to shift the conversation from rising coronavirus infections and deteriorating public support for the president’s pandemic response.

In new advertising, tweets and public statements that began to appear earlier this month, Trump has argued that the presumptive Democratic nominee is a harbinger of chaos and destruction, depicting a fantastical scarecrow largely divorced from reality.

“Joe Biden and the Radical Left want to Abolish Police, Abolish ICE, Abolish Bail, Abolish Suburbs, Abolish the 2nd Amendment — and Abolish the American Way of Life. No one will be SAFE in Joe Biden’s America!” Trump tweeted Wednesday. In fact, Biden opposes calls to abolish police or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, seeks new gun regulations under current judicial interpretations of the Constitution and sees the nation’s suburban voters, especially women, as a core part of his political base.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/from-sleepy-joe-to-the-dystopian-candidate-how-trump-has-recast-his-attacks-on-biden/2020/07/18/5a6a3e36-c830-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html
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lunatica

(53,410 posts)
1. Trump just thinks about what he dreams of achieving and
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 02:52 PM
Jul 2020

he projects it onto Biden.

I wonder what’s next when that tactic doesn’t work and he loses another 10 points in the polls.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
5. Well there's always Biden with vampire teeth
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 02:56 PM
Jul 2020

or Frankenstein with electrodes sticking out his forehead

or Biden dressed as a Russian cossack, oh wait a minute - that's Trump

LakeArenal

(28,713 posts)
2. I also read that sending kids back to school is to win back suburban white women
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 02:53 PM
Jul 2020

Really his shift is farther into fantasy.

murielm99

(30,655 posts)
3. Abolish the suburbs!
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 02:53 PM
Jul 2020

LOL!

If enough people die, trumpy, you will be the one abolishing the suburbs. There will be no one left to live there.

ProfessorGAC

(64,413 posts)
11. Exactly How...
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 04:58 PM
Jul 2020

...would anybody "abolish the suburbs"?
Appropriate about 50 million homes, make them live in their cars within city limits?
This is epic stupidity.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
4. Desperation. It's painfully obvious.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 02:55 PM
Jul 2020

But we’re nominating Joe. It will take a better con artist than Donald Trump to make Joe Biden look like a radical. Nobody’s buying that.



-Laelth

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
8. And yet the footage they use in the video
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 03:35 PM
Jul 2020

Shows recent catastrophic events that are currently happening UNDER TRUMP'S WATCH!

Classic projection. "I will now ascribe all my fuck ups to Joe Biden and my base won't notice".

nolabear

(41,915 posts)
12. He couldn't find a less convincing depiction of Joe if he tried.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 05:01 PM
Jul 2020

I can’t wait for that Chris Wallace interview.

WyattKansas

(1,648 posts)
15. Once you prove to people that you are totally full of shit, they don't come back to you.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 05:15 PM
Jul 2020

tRUMP thinks his same old attack ads and lines are going to work, but inside the majority of minds in the country, they know he is a lying fraud that is an idiot.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
16. Projection, and far too disordered to understand what he's doing.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 05:27 PM
Jul 2020

Or to disapprove if he did. He's been well trained over decades in this standard Republican technique, and it must come as unthinkingly as compartmentalization of their sins. Mental knee jerks.

Turbineguy

(37,206 posts)
17. Which might explain what's going on in Portland.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 05:32 PM
Jul 2020

Trump always accuses others of what he is guilty of.

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