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Here's how Susan Collins gaslit the nation -- and revealed herself to be just another partisan flunky
Heather Digby Parton, Salon - COMMENTARY
10 Oct 2018 at 08:55 ET
Back in February of this year, Axios reported that Donald Trump had a plan for the midterms:
A source close to the White House tells me that with an eye to getting Republicans excited about voting for Republicans in midterms, the president this year will be looking for unexpected cultural flashpoints like the NFL and kneeling that he can latch onto in person and on Twitter. The source said Trump is going to be looking for opportunities to stir up the base, more than focusing on any particular legislation or issue.
I think we can accurately observe that the confirmation of the right-wing political operative and accused attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court counts as just such an unexpected cultural flashpoint. And as predicted, Donald Trump is taking full advantage of it. Since it happens to be the same cultural flashpoint that hit his campaign at roughly the same moment in 2016, when the Access Hollywood tape of him bragging about assaulting women was reported, he undoubtedly sees it as a winning strategy. It worked for him, after all.
Recall that after the tape hit and women started to come forward to say that Trump had assaulted them in exactly the way he described, he went on the offensive in both senses of the word by going before his cheering crowds and insulting the women as being too ugly to attack and declaring that they were all liars. He got angry. He promised to sue them all. And his crowds cheered him on. By this point in the campaign it had become nothing more than a rank racist misogyny festival, punctuated with chants of Build That Wall! and Lock Her Up!
Trump being Trump and believing that his every passing thought is genius, obviously believes that attacking women is an excellent way to win elections. And so, after insincerely proclaiming that he found her testimony credible, he switched gears and went after Kavanaughs accuser Christine Blasey Ford:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/heres-susan-collins-gaslit-nation-revealed-just-another-partisan-flunky/
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Here's how Susan Collins gaslit the nation -- and revealed herself to be just another partisan flunky (Original Post)
BeckyDem
Oct 2018
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bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)1. I'm kinda surprised he hasn't hit the cultural issues harder.
NFL players kneeling was big with his base last fall, and he hasn't really touched on it other than a tweet or two back in September. I think all of the Kavanaugh nomination stuff sort of sucked all the air out of the room.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)2. Good point.
lark
(23,155 posts)3. Remember he's 70 years old & has zero energy, is just extraordinarily lazy and weak.
And it's not his genes, he makes himself fat by eating fast food all the time and never dresses until after 10am and is back in his rooms by 5. He used to be slender before he got demented and crazy. He can only do one thing at a time & only for a short duration. He's now coordinating the midterm election theft with russia and that will keep him busy until after the mid-terms when he will fire Sessions and Mueller.