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Even More Aggressive in 2020
Published on Saturday, December 21, 2019
by Common Dreams
"It's clear there's no law Donald Trump and his right-wing machine won't bend, break, or ignore to try to win the presidency."
by
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Reporting on Friday shows a top advisor for President Donald Trump's re-election campaign caught on tape in November bragging of the Republican Party's history of voter suppressionand promising to go on the offensive in 2020.
The revelation came from the Associated Press in a report Friday on comments by Trump re-election advisor Justin Clark at an event in Madison, Wisconsin.
"Traditionally it's always been Republicans suppressing votes in places," said Clark. "Let's start protecting our voters. We know where they are... Let's start playing offense a little bit. That's what youre going to see in 2020."
AP reported that Clark's remarks show the Republican Party determined to use relaxed civil rights regulations to their advantage:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/21/after-admitting-its-always-been-republicans-suppressing-votes-trump-advisor-says
ewagner
(18,964 posts)...will be brutal and epic...
The fate of the nation may depend on Wisconsin
FormerDittoHead
(5,155 posts)bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)CrispyQ
(36,502 posts)Once demographics changed and women, minorities, and gays started demanding equality and equity in the system, then that representative government crap has got to go. It wasn't too hard to rig the system in their favor, either, since they were at the top of the food chain to start with. What's really disgusting is that 40% of our fellow citizens are A-OK with this as long as it's their side doing the oppressing.
CousinIT
(9,256 posts)The last time he felt hed gotten away with his crimes was when special counsel Robert Mueller failed to find evidence of a conspiracy between Trumps campaign and the Russians during the 2016 election. Less than 24 hours after Mueller lamely testified as much to Congress, an apparently giddy Trump picked up the phone and called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and tried to get yet another foreign leader to help him steal an election. He offered Zelensky a bribe to get him to investigate his likely opponent in 2020, Joe Biden, and tried to strong-arm Zelensky into making Ukraine the scapegoat for the 2016 Russian hacking of Democratic emails.
He wont be able to stop himself from doing it again. Hes not going to stop at doubling down. Hell triple down on everything hes pulled over the last four years.
Hes going to call Putin and promise to lift the sanctions if he chips in to get him re-elected. Hell call Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey. Hell talk to President Andrej Duda of Poland. Hell reach out for help from every wannabe Mussolini from South America to Singapore. And hell get it. Theyll find ways to slip him money under the table. Theyll turn loose hit squads of trolls to infect American social media with campaign propaganda.
Hes going to put the full weight of his Department of Justice behind efforts to suppress the votes of poor people, young people, blacks, Latinos, women, the LGBTQ community in fact anyone likely to vote Democratic. Hell call for investigations of every Democratic presidential candidate whos going up in the polls and announce hes got dirt on every one of them. Hes going to unleash an army of surrogate liars to spread falsehoods about his opponent. Hes going to go from one rally a week to two to three; maybe hell hold a rally every other night. Hes going to turn Air Force One into an airborne criminal command post.
crickets
(25,982 posts)JudyM
(29,265 posts)pecosbob
(7,542 posts)Take the White House and the Senate and we can make it a crime to disenfranchise citizens.