1. As the dog returns to the his vomit, so Trump inevitably returns to Obama-bashing. Biden will be the formal opponent, but Trump is much more comfortable going after Obama. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1260562505845354497 …
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3. Racism is Trump's alpha and omega. From the Central Park 5 to the current blame China campaign, he's ridden on the wave of bigotry & backlash. Being the anti-Obama is his core identity and it's what he returns to in order to rally his base.
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4. One way to understand Trump's career is to realize that Obama's election was a shock to those wedded to America's traditional racial hierarchy, a shock intensified by subsequent rise of BLM. Trump knows is base wants him to be the anti-Obama.
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5. Being the anti-Obama has a policy dimension (overturning Iraq deal, withdrawing from the Paris accord, and, as
@ThePlumLineGS notes, the persistence undermining of Obamacare).https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1260580639302090753 …Show this thread -
6. Trump was elected to restore a threatened racial hierarchy. With the pandemic, we're seeing exactly what that restored hierarchy means in practice: working class POC forced to do dangerous jobs to keep wildly unequal economy going. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/racism-trump-obamagate-election/ …
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Jet, is this a bad stratagy based on the smarter moves Don Trump usually makes?
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We don’t care what Nate Silver thinks
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