'It's a deliberate strategy': Trump uses civil war as culture war in bid to beat Biden

[marmar]

'It's a deliberate strategy': Trump uses civil war as culture war in bid to beat Biden
Trump has dug in over statues, protests and the Confederate flag – and experts say it’s all part of a calculated election plan

David Smith in Washington
@smithinamerica
Tue 7 Jul 2020 09.46 EDTLast modified on Tue 7 Jul 2020 10.46 EDT


(Guardian UK) Two miles from the White House is a small gun. The .44-calibre deringer pistol is displayed in a museum beneath Ford’s Theatre in Washington. It was fired by John Wilkes Booth, a white supremacist and sympathiser of the slave-owning Confederacy, when he assassinated Abraham Lincoln five days after the end of the American civil war.

Booth could never have guessed that, a century and a half later, the lost cause would find a new flag-bearer in the White House – nor that it would be in the form of Donald Trump, a New York businessman obsessed with being on the winning side.

As a surge of protests against racial injustice in recent weeks toppled Confederate statues and demanded the renaming of military bases, the US president dug in for the status quo. And on Monday he went further by explicitly criticising Nascar, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, for banning the stars and bars flag of the slave-owning Confederacy.

On one level, it may seem bizarre. On another, it makes perfect sense ahead of November’s election against Joe Biden. The president, who counts Gone with the Wind among his favourite films, is repurposing the civil war as a culture war against an enemy within. .........(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/07/trump-civil-war-culture-war-election-biden

[soothsayer]

1. Good luck with that, mr uncultured prez

There aren’t as many racists as you think (but damn there are a lot) — and lots will be COVID-19 casualties by voting day cuz they don’t wear masks.

[LakeArenal]

2. Hell yeah it is!

I assume Joe has the very deliberate strategy as well. The winning strategy.