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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Saturday, July 4, 2020

This Is How To Write A Headline

At Mount Rushmore, Trump Exploits Social Divisions, Warns of Left Wing "Cultural Revolution" In Dark Speech Ahead of Independence Day.

I've seen clips of the mumbled, sweaty performance of lines someone else (Stephen Miller? Tucker Carlson?) wrote for him. Trump's speech - indeed his entire campaign message - is a litany of threats, warnings and grievances. I suppose this helped him "win" in 2016, but he's the incumbent president. He spoke of "great carnage" in his inauguration speech, but it was his responsibility to fix that.  Yet, we have tape of him saying "I don't take any responsibility."

America is seething with racial injustice. He's making it worse.

America is staggering through a pandemic. He's making it worse.

America's standing in the world is collapsing. He's making it worse.

"I'm willing to kill Americans in order to get re-elected" is pretty much his campaign message.

Josh Marshall is right.  None of this had to happen.

Thanks, Republicans.

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