Sunday, August 4, 2024

GET ME REWRITE: Donald Trump is once again showing his true colors as a presidential candidate

 
HeadlineNew York Times, 8/2/2024
She is not one of us. 
When former President Donald J. Trump challenged Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity at a public forum on Wednesday — and again on social media the next day — that was the message at the core of his remarks. 
It is a tactic that has long been part of the underside of American politics: presenting an opponent as somehow “other” or “not one of us” — someone who cannot be trusted or truly known. 
But while this has been a recurrent theme in American campaigns for at least a century, Mr. Trump has taken it to a new level, historians and analysts said. What has often been a subtext or a whisper campaign driven by surrogates is, in Mr. Trump’s hands, a central message of his campaign — projected on screens at a rally, promoted on social media and reinforced by his running mate[emphasis added]

Donald Trump, racist:
Sugar pie, honey bunch, they can't help themselves:  GOP goes on racist DEI rant aimed at Kamala Harris (Larry Kudlow edition).  (7/24)

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