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The real lesson Trump learned from Charlottesville
The president emerged from a low point of his presidency unscathed with his loyal voters, and has turned race into a key issue for the midterms and beyond.Source: Politico
The content of President Donald Trumps dig at basketball superstar LeBron James might have been standard Trump fare questioning the intelligence of a prominent African-American who has been critical of him but the timing of the tweet made it stand out on Friday night.
The post landed almost exactly a year after the deadly clash between white nationalists and Black Lives Matter protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, when the president refused to condemn white supremacists and neo-Nazis outright.
That moment temporarily left Trump on an island, abandoned by Republicans on the Hill and corporate executives who had previously played nice with the president on his business councils, and was a low-water mark of his presidency one that, according to presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, puts him in the dung heap of presidents who are completely insensitive of race in the United States.
If that proves to be the case in the long run, a year out from Charlottesville tells a different story and is less clear cut. In fact, while Trump hasnt changed, hes no longer isolated, and his race and culture wars now pose one of the biggest challenges to Democrats plotting how to win back the House in 2018 and to take on Trump in 2020.
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But among Democrats hoping to regain the House this year, or who are angling to take on Trump in 2020, reminding people what he said is seen as a dangerous game. Trump is in high demand on the campaign trail, endorsing Republican candidates at rallies where he often continues to exploit the racial divides.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/05/trump-charlottesville-republicans-midterms-764348
A disturbing precedent: How expressions of racial bigotry are becoming tolerated, even accepted, as just a rhetorical tool of political discourse.
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The real lesson Trump learned from Charlottesville (Original Post)
Snellius
Aug 2018
OP
empedocles
(15,751 posts)1. Dems need to get much better at simple label messages.
Jill Wine Banks thread was good at identifying how trump defined issues as: 'collusion' [not conspiracy]; 'meddling' [not war attack], etc.
'Story' is important.
2naSalit
(86,765 posts)2. Amazingly, this was on Friday night and anyone who missed it needs to see it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=178&v=QhJIt4uv9x4
In this short almost 6 minutes, Bill Mahr has succinctly put the whole russian interference into global perspective and clearly indicates where the problem lies, we should be able to figure out how to deal with.
In this short almost 6 minutes, Bill Mahr has succinctly put the whole russian interference into global perspective and clearly indicates where the problem lies, we should be able to figure out how to deal with.