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This weeks Republican National Convention, by contrast [to the Democrats], however positive its official theme, is going to be QAnon all the way.
.............its safe to predict that the next few days will be filled with QAnon-type warnings about terrible events that arent actually happening and evil conspiracies that dont actually exist.
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What he and they can do, however, is conjure up imaginary threats that play into his supporters prejudices, coupled with conspiracy theories that resonate with their fear and envy of know-it-all elites. QAnon is only the most ludicrous example of this genre, all of which portrays Trump as the hero defending us from invisible evil.
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If all of this sounds crazy, thats because it is. And its almost certainly not a political tactic that can win over a majority of American voters. It might, however, scare enough people that, combined with vote suppression and the unrepresentative nature of the Electoral College, Trump can manage, barely, to hang on to power.
I dont think this desperate strategy is going to work. But its all Trump has left. The only thing he can hope for is fear itself nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror based on nothing real at all.
via:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/25/1972139/-Krugman-The-Only-Thing-Trump-Has-is-Fear-Itself?utm_campaign=recent
Blue Owl
(51,163 posts)Desperado, why don't you come to your senses,
You've been out buildin' fences for so long now,
Oh, you're a soft one,
I know that you've got your reasons,
These things that are pleasin' you,
Can hurt you somehow...
dalton99a
(82,120 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)not_the_one
(2,227 posts)Are they being propped up by the same "astroturf" billionaires?
Or is it Putin's doing? (and his bots)
Or both?
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(25,212 posts)I don't see any difference.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)This is their playbook on steroids.