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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. President Trump is painting an astonishingly apocalyptic vision of America under Democratic control in the campaigns final days, unleashing a torrent of falsehoods and portraying his political opponents as desiring crime, squalor and poverty.
As voters prepare to render their first verdict on his presidency in Tuesdays midterm elections, Trump is claiming that Democrats want to erase the nations borders and provide sanctuary to drug dealers, human traffickers and MS-13 killers. He is warning that they would destroy the economy, obliterate Medicare and unleash a wave of violent crime that endangers families everywhere. And he is alleging that they would transform the United States into Venezuela with socialism run amok.
Trump has never been hemmed in by fact, fairness or even logic. The 45th president proudly refuses to apologize and routinely violates the norms of decorum that guided his predecessors. But at one mega-rally after another in the run-up to Tuesdays midterm elections, Trump has taken his no-boundaries political ethos to a new level demagoguing the Democrats in a whirl of distortion and using the power of the federal government to amplify his fantastical arguments.
In Columbia, Mo., the president suggested that Democrats run around like antifa demonstrators in black uniforms and black helmets, but underneath, they have this weak little face and go back home into mommys basement.
In Huntington, W.Va., Trump called predatory immigrants the worst scum in the world but alleged that Democrats welcome them by saying, Fly right in, folks. Come on in. We dont care who the hell you are, come on in!
And in Macon, Ga., he charged that if Democrat Stacey Abrams is elected governor, she would take away the Second Amendment right to bear arms though as a state official, she would not have the power to change the Constitution.
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(82,849 posts)This demagoguery has just come out of the blue, without warning, and caught our poor media folks completely off guard. They can barely report it, let alone do a deep dive into Trump's mendacity. This whole thing has just caught them flat-footed until the day before the election. And it will happen again next time, too.