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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Aug 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Daniel Dale

      1. Trump is going all in with racial incitement at a moment of civic unrest. While this is obviously an electoral strategy (as Kellyanne Conway says, more violence helps Trump) it is also something more.https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1300436709352648710 …

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      Daniel DaleVerified account @ddale8
      Trump yesterday retweeted a tweet that falsely blamed "Black Lives Matter /Antifa" for a black man assaulting a white woman. 1) BLM/Antifa had nothing to do with it. The man charged is a serial offender on the NYC subway system. 2) The video was posted by a white nationalist.
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Aug 2020

      2. Racist incitement isn't, in Trump's case, just an electoral strategy, although he ratchets it up whenever election is close. It's also the whole point of governing: this is what he's here for.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Aug 2020

      3. Racial incitement sometimes works for Trump (it did in 2016 but sometimes backfires (the caravan issue fizzled in 2018). But real success from Trump's point of view is that whether it wins him election or not, it advances his view of the world.

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Aug 2020

          4. In current context, racial incitement is win-win for Trump: either ramps up base enough to win election or, even if he loses, it'll make governance impossible for Biden. It's the Samson Option:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-election-civil-war/ …

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        2. Aryeh Cohen-Wade‏ @AryehCW 31 Aug 2020
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          This is giving him too much credit

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        2. Actually,‏ @eaton 31 Aug 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          This is why the "Trump is just an opportunistic grifter who leaned into racism because it worked and he has no morals" line is a horrible misread IMO.

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        3. Actually,‏ @eaton 31 Aug 2020
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          His history of actions and speech show that his view of the world is DEEPLY racist, and a meaningful slice of his support comes from people who love that he vocalizes and acts upon those views without suffering the consequences *they* would

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        1. Doug Gilliland‏ @vitaldoug411 31 Aug 2020
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          It's whether it keeps him out of prison.

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        1. ZipperMerge‏ @3mal_ham 31 Aug 2020
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          Are these groups being manipulated by foreign actors to influence the election? Probably.

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