https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/trump-america-first-speech-analysis-gop/671004/ Just when you think he couldn’t be more unhinged….. In his AFPI speech, for example, he portrayed America not as a great nation facing significant challenges, but as a dystopia, hellish and desolate, a “cesspool of crime” on the edge of extinction. Trump spoke about streets “riddled with needles and soaked with the blood of innocent victims,” a nation being terrorized by “drugged out lunatics” and “sadists who prey on children.” He invoked violent gangs “laughing as they bludgeoned the life from their helpless victims” and described a woman being repeatedly stabbed and “bleeding to death in her own bathtub.” He claimed that America’s largest cities are “literal war zones.” “A friend of mine recently said that I was the most persecuted person in the history of our country,” Trump said. “And then, I started thinking about it, Kellyanne [Conway, who was in the audience]. And I said, ‘You know what? He may very well be right. He may be right.’” Trump then said this: “Never forget, everything this corrupt establishment is doing to me is all about preserving their power and control over the American people. They want to damage you in any form, but they really want to damage me, so I can no longer go back to work for you. And I don’t think that’s going to happen.” “Despite great outside dangers, our biggest threat in this country remains the sick, sinister, and evil people from within.” And this: “We’re standing up against some of the most menacing forces and entrenched interests and vicious opponents our people have ever seen or confronted.” He described Democratic Representative Adam Schiff as “a sick, evil, very bad human being.” The January 6 committee, he said, is made up of “hacks and thugs.” He then made this move: “But no matter how big or powerful the corrupt radicals that we’re fighting against may be, no matter how menacing they appear, we must never forget this nation does not belong to them. This nation belongs to you, the American people.”
“A friend of mine recently said that I was the most persecuted person in the history of our country,” Trump said. Must be nice to live an entire life thinking this is not offensively insane.
Perspective. Appreciation. Gratitude. Get some. it’s amazing & its sad. People born in the greatest country in the greatest time see nothing but misery. don’t blame the media. Don’t blame social media. Don’t blame the dems & don’t blame the pubs. If you are miserable with this amazing embarrassment of good fortune & you are still a piss ass bitch, YOU screwed yourself out of a good life despite being the ultimate lottery winner. Congrats ungrateful dummy.
All part of that false dichotomy bullshit: You are either a full throated supporter of the orange god or you are an America hating radical leftist communist pedophile. Another slippery slope is once you have dehumanized your opponents the easier it is to justify some really horrific acts.
Here is the problem with Trump. He has no ideas other than riling people up against each other for personal advantage. Only slow witted folks fall for it. There are a lot of slow witted folks.
No problem with this. It's honest and factual which is more than I can say about the democratic socialist communist party of the globalist great reset leaders. It is a fight to the death. To pretend otherwise is whistling past the graveyard. Yes, we intend to bury the great reset with the America First Reset.
The media on the left speak in dire terms and about "fighting." But the terminology on the right seems to me to be more explicitly militaristic. Mark Levin airs from a secret bunker below some nondescript building, which I suppose is partly a joke and partly not. Glenn Beck's theme song has language about standing up and holding the line, which has a military connotation to me. Folks like Alex Jones have made explicit references to civil war. I get that political rhetoric is often extreme, but I think a lot of Americans are getting riled up by stuff like this - for example, the ones now going to prison on January 6th charges.
"portrayed America not as a great nation facing significant challenges, but as a dystopia, hellish and desolate, a “cesspool of crime” on the edge of extinction." Seems to me that when the left criticizes America, they are told to leave and find another country if they don't like it. Yet some on the right say really negative things about America yet I guess don't need to consider leaving because they're "real" Americans? I feel like it's almost always okay to present America as currently sucking depending upon who's in power.
