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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExactly what can the incumbent President run on?
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He can only run on two things:
1. Fear. Biden is going to take our guns away and they are killing the unborn. This strategy faces a real chance of backfiring. The NRA is in a world of hurt. Their executive leadership is in disarray and financially they can no longer mount a media campaign like they did in years past. Also, how can they demonize liberals as baby killers when the COVID-19 virus kills 2000 people a day?
2. Joe Biden and the 'Democrat' party are worse than we are. With the pandemic ongoing, possibly into the fall and beyond, compromising the rule of law (Flynn), and continuing to make stupid statements (like ingesting Lysol) I don't think this strategy will have the impact of years past.
Like I've been saying, I don't want trump to just lose, I want him beaten soundly. I want Biden to beat him so bad that they won't entertain an idea of a trump-lite candidate for generations to come.
sop
(10,274 posts)Chainfire
(17,671 posts)They have too much invested in him to begin to doubt now.
He hates the same people his supporters do.
Croney
(4,673 posts)He is not Hillary Clinton. He is not Barack Obama. He thinks white people are better than everybody else. He claims to be against abortion rights, although we know he doesn't give a fuck one way or the other.
These facts will produce votes. Many votes. From many stupid, selfish people.
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)MissMillie
(38,591 posts)
pretty much said, "Oh woe is me! I've been ridiculed. I've been bullied. And once you people realize how unfairly I've been treated, you'll know that you need me to Make America Great Again."
Somebody call a whaaaaambulance.
JI7
(89,281 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,755 posts)His supporters will love it.
Chainfire
(17,671 posts)On personally saving over a million American lives due to his genius.
He will run on, only he can recover the economy to where he had taken it before.
He will run on Biden being even a more flawed character than he is.
Cha
(297,877 posts)does best.
Funtatlaguy
(10,890 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,484 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)He always runs "against" something. And he hopes his argument against is better than his opponents' arguments for.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)Trump won in 2016 by blaming our problems on Mexicans invading from the south. Only he could protect us from the foreigners bringing crime and stealing our jobs. This time he will blame our problems on China, stealing our jobs and infecting us with the virus. Only Trump will protect us from the darkies from the south and the darkies froom the East.
For decades the Republicans have run on racial resentment. They all believe that those people are lazy, living off welfare taken from our taxes which they get instead of us just because of their color. With the Mexicans here without authority they somehow both take our jobs and also lazily live off welfare without working.
Trump is running as George Wallace Jr. Republicans are motivated primarily by racial resentment. Black before, then brown in 2016, now yellow.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Affordable health care, a just system of justice with consequences, and equality. Budget reform reducing the debt by increasing the top 10% more in taxes! until we're in much better shape. Production of real world now jobs, and major legislative updates protecting us from this again.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Those things alone will bring in the various like minded of which there are too many imo
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)Xenophobia and hatred