BTRTN: Trump Can't Breathe...His Cheap Tricks Aren't Working Against a Pandemic and a Movement
Born To Run The Numbers offers a theory on Trump's spree of erratic, seemingly self-defeating actions. It's not that he is trying to lose, but that he only knows one way to win... and what worked in 2016 is failing in a very different 2020.
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2020/07/btrtn-trump-cant-breathehis-cheap.html
Excerpts: "Two acute crises grip our nation, and have one thing in common: Americans die because they can’t breathe...The coronavirus shreds the lungs of its victims. The police place their knees on the throats of Black men until they desperately gasp that they cannot breathe. It is, indeed, a fitting commentary on this administration that as more and more Americans are asphyxiated in these horrible deaths, the President is consistently found on the side of the choker...
"The oxygen of his political life has been a panoply of contrarian political actions. He finds oxygen by impulsively following his own gut instincts. He finds oxygen in stoking societal polarization, racism, deceit, and in his parasitic relationship with Fox News. He finds the adoring crowds at political rallies to be intoxicating. He demands – and is energized by -- the sycophantic subservience of major Republican figures. He counts on William Barr’s ham-fisted control over the Department of Justice and a hand-picked judicial branch. He finds that diversionary tactics – blowing one bad story off the front page by creating a second front of outrage – are a reliable source of fresh oxygen. When he needs a quick hit of the good stuff, he reaches for his phone and clumsily types a race-baiting tweet. The final burst of oxygen: absolutely never, ever, ever admitting that he was wrong… about anything. All are weakening as sources of oxygen. Ah, irony. Trump can’t breathe...
"In the end, there is something monumentally wrong about a President who pays so much attention to monuments of historical Southern oppression while the contemporary south is oppressed and crushed by Trump’s failures to pay attention..."
