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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN's Keith Boykin on Trump's attacks on black sports stars:
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Trump called LeBron James dumb and Colin Kaepernick a son of a bitch. He demanded gratitude from LiAngelo Ball and suspension for Marshawn Lynch. He attacked Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Steph Curry. And today he accused Bubba Wallace of lying...as 130,000 Americans lie in coffins.
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CNN's Keith Boykin on Trump's attacks on black sports stars: (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Jul 2020
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sop
(10,299 posts)1. Trump knows his racist followers deeply resent wealthy, successful black sports stars.
Walleye
(31,156 posts)4. So does he. The envy is palpable
Nevilledog
(51,299 posts)2. This
empedocles
(15,751 posts)3. Seems like a deliberate, consistent trump strategy to 'excite' the far right, not worry about
the appealing to the middle voters now. Implication seems to be 'incite broad turmoil and multiple violence', providing a rationale for authoritarian rule, 'to impose order'.
[Key here would be, for Dems to not to meet armed violence with armed citizen violence, [home defense is reasonable of course].
As Carville warned, the question is, 'what are Democrats going to do, to screw up'.