Trump's 'dark and divisive' rhetoric risks isolating moderate voters

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

After a weekend of stoking racial tensions, President Donald Trump continued his divisive political strategy on Monday, raising new questions about whether it would work as polls showed him falling behind with moderate voters.

He suggested in tweets that NASCAR had made a mistake banning Confederate flags and criticized the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians for considering changing their names in order to be "politically correct."

That follows back-to-back Independence Day weekend speeches in which he defended monuments to historical figures with ties to racism and attacked protesters as "angry mobs" whose "goal is to end America."

"In our schools, our newsrooms, even our corporate boardrooms, there is a new far left fascism that demands absolute allegiance," Trump said Friday at Mount Rushmore, positioned so his face was in line with the presidents considered among America's greatest.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-dark-and-divisive-rhetoric-risks-isolating-moderate-voters/ar-BB16pruF?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP

[paleotn]

1. If it's not working, try more of the same....

Donnie's huge, huge, HUGE! strategy. I think that's a definition of something....insanity maybe. Defeat, certainly.

[Bev54]

2. I am sorry if you are a moderate

I would think you decided a long time ago not to vote for Trump. I think now he is just losing more of the religious and elderly vote, nothing to do with moderates.

[Girard442]

3. Yup. Moderate voters left the building a while back.

They’re worried now about the not-entirely-batshit-crazy voters leaving.

[lagomorph777]

7. El Guano Loco needs to rethink his full-on insanity strategy.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Direct link:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-dark-divisive-rhetoric-energizes-base-risks-isolating/story?id=71636690&cid=clicksource_4380645_4_three_posts_card_hed

[applegrove]

5. The part of Trump's voters who are peeling off may just be sick and tired

of race being an issue. They don't karen people and get their jollies by joining that fake Trump civil society (no union building allowed). They realize there is nothing in Trump's vision for them. The plutocrats take it all. And things feel a bit warmer and sunnier when they think of living in a multirace and vibrant society the USA could be. 'A taco truck on every corner' sounds pretty good than watching racism corral Trump's cult day in and out so that rich people pay even less in taxes.

[JI7]

6. Nobody who is even considering voting for this shit is a "moderate"

[dalton99a]

8. +1