Differing Viewpoints Does Not Equal Hate
But forcing equivalencies that don’t really exist is all Trump’s got, and it could work at least enough to make things closer than they appear now
Why do we say that?
• Because a relative of ours, who’s hardly a Trump supporter, commented to us over 4th of July weekend:
“I get the Civil War Generals, but Washington and Jefferson? C’mon!”
We don’t think anything’s going to get our relative to vote for Trump. But he is suddenly thinking at least partly in the way the President wants him to think. And all the President needs is a few people thinking like him flipping his way to get him back to a competitive place. (They also have to start caring next to not at all about the President’s horrendous Coronavirus response, which of course, also has a huge racial component.)
• Because the Washington Post publishes an article entitled: “Trump’s push to amplify racism unnerves Republicans who have long enabled him”. But at least not publicly, they’re not. Which means they think Trump’s approach even now may still turn out to be a “winner”. “The President is stepping forward”, says Iowa Republican Senator Joni Ernst, who’s up for re-election.
