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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumps plan to win the senior vote: fear criminals in post-police dystopia over coronavirus
Heres President Trumps new reelection strategy, in a nutshell: Convince vulnerable seniors who rightly fear getting killed by the pandemic that Trump let rampage out of control that they should instead fear getting killed by criminals who would supposedly rampage out of control in a future post-police dystopia that is entirely invented.Trump just announced a plan to dispatch more federal law enforcement into Democratic cities without the assent of local officials while offering numerous lurid exaggerations about urban crime and the supposed radical movement to dissolve police departments.
Meanwhile, at Wednesdays coronavirus task force briefing, he blamed the current explosion in cases on Mexico and those protesing police brutality, while continuing to urge a rapid reopening of schools and businesses, even though rapid reopenings are plainly a key cause of the ongoing surge.
You can see this in Trumps campaign ads. He is running a new spot that depicts an elderly woman calling the police in terror as a marauder circles her house like a vulture, only to find that in Joe Bidens America, the police are no longer there.
In recent weeks, Trumps campaign has spent $20 million on the ad and others like it. But that ad is based on a lie: It falsely claims Biden would defund the police. Tellingly, if you listen closely, youll note that the person who voices this lie is Trumps chief propagandist, Sean Hannity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/23/trump-frantic-new-effort-win-back-seniors-is-already-failing/
The fear of death hovers over that ad. Its no accident that this comes as Trump is bleeding support among seniors, very likely due to his catastrophic mishandling of the virus, because they have the most to fear from it. One threat to seniors is supposed to magically supplant the other.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/23/trump-frantic-new-effort-win-back-seniors-is-already-failing/
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Trumps plan to win the senior vote: fear criminals in post-police dystopia over coronavirus (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Jul 2020
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Trump 2020: "Antifa are coming to your house! Antifa want to kill white people!"
dalton99a
Jul 2020
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malaise
(268,698 posts)1. And it won't work
Fuck him
greatauntoftriplets
(175,729 posts)2. Just saw that commercial, it's fearmongering.
I said "fuck you" to the boob tube.
NCDem47
(2,248 posts)8. That commercial is one frame short...
...of showing that old woman being raped or having her throat slit. Right at that line.
Disgusting.
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)3. Meanwhile
GOP seems to be mounting another sneak attack on SS and MEDICARE....
from SocialSecurityWorks
"BREAKING: Republicans ARE INCLUDING the TRUST Act in their COVID package.
The TRUST Act creates a closed door commission to fast track Social Security and Medicare cuts."
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Igor Bobic
"McConnell says Romneys TRUST Act, aimed at addressing the debt and entitlements, will be included in the GOP coronavirus package."
1:41 PM · Jul 23, 2020
FM123
(10,053 posts)4. Try all you want, you idiot.
I can tell you my 92 year old dad in Florida sure isn't voting for him!
dalton99a
(81,397 posts)5. Trump 2020: "Antifa are coming to your house! Antifa want to kill white people!"
ResistantAmerican17
(3,796 posts)6. Fuck fat Nixon. Seniors are dying in droves from covid-19.
His stormtroopers cannot, at least so far, come into their homes and kill them.
kimbutgar
(21,055 posts)7. Except this is happening right now in MF45's America