Republicans Insist Only Trump Can Stop This Chaos. But He’s in Charge Now.

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Republicans Insist Only Trump Can Stop This Chaos. But He’s in Charge Now. | The New YorkTimes

The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Nothing has changed.

8/27/20
The America that many speakers described on Wednesday at the Republican National Convention did not sound like a desirable place: fractious, violent, functionally lawless in some pockets. But their case that only President Trump could shield Americans from this fate was complicated by a nettlesome fact. He is in charge, at present — at the controls of government through the purportedly real-time conditions these supporters outlined. And they would all like to keep him there. “America,” Vice President Mike Pence told a Republican convention crowd sternly from Fort McHenry in Baltimore, “needs four more years of President Donald Trump.” The third night of the Republican convention steered into a bit of messaging jujitsu that has become a dominant theme of the week: Mr. Trump’s ability to turn back Trump-era ills that have, in this telling, been largely out of his hands to date. And so the president, the argument has gone, can be relied upon now to safeguard Americans against the threats they see all around them, in the nation he leads. “People that can afford to flee have fled,” Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota said of cities like Portland, Ore., and New York. “But the people that can’t — good, hard-working Americans — are left to fend for themselves.”

Even as president, Mr. Trump has often appeared most comfortable in the role of back-seat driver, jeering his own government like a common bystander, insisting that someone really ought to do something about all this. Through it all, the intended takeaway has seemed clear: Mr. Trump is in control of the good but not responsible for the bad, worthy of praise for America’s successes and exoneration for its struggles. Mindful of Mr. Trump’s polling deficit with women, convention organizers also saw to it that Wednesday’s programming positioned him as a champion for gender equality, seeing no contradiction in making this case for a man with a long trail of sexist and demeaning comments about women and multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. The coronavirus? “It was awful,” Larry Kudlow, the president’s top economic adviser, said on Tuesday, relegating it misleadingly to the past tense. “We will have law and order on the streets of this country for every American of every race and creed and color,” Mr. Pence declared.

Indeed Mr. Pence. But I can do without your strange sense of law and order .... kill first and ask questions later.

As for Trump being some sort of savior/protector of American women, his track record belies that. Trump was humping a porn star just after his son Barron was born. And then there is this.....

The 25 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct

‘I Moved on Her Very Heavily’: Part 1

 

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Republicans Insist Only Trump Can Stop This Chaos. But He’s in Charge Now. | The New YorkTimes

The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Nothing has changed.



Indeed Mr. Pence. But I can do without your strange sense of law and order .... kill first and ask questions later.

As for Trump being some sort of savior/protector of American women, his track record belies that. Trump was humping a porn star just after his son Barron was born. And then there is this.....

The 25 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct

‘I Moved on Her Very Heavily’: Part 1

Either he can and he should or its a state government issue and he can't. Choose one.

 

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You gotta laugh when the argument is 'if you want more of what we're seeing, elect somebody else'. I guess this is Trump teaching us an object lesson.

 

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You gotta laugh when the argument is 'if you want more of what we're seeing, elect somebody else'. I guess this is Trump teaching us an object lesson.

Trump has shown us that he can't manage crises. Not a government shutdown that he caused. Not natural disasters. Not racial injustice and police brutality. Not a pandemic.

Nothing. Zilch. Zero. He's an empty promise machine.

 

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Trump has shown us that he can't manage crises. Not a government shutdown that he caused. Not natural disasters. Not racial injustice and police brutality. Not a pandemic.

Nothing. Zilch. Zero. He's an empty promise machine.

But he does make the greatest promises.

 

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