Trump Advisers Split in Response to Protests (because it is always only about him).

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Trump Advisers Split in Response to Protests

May 31, 2020 at 9:49 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/05/31/trump-advisers-split-in-response-to-protests/

"SNIP.....

CNN: “Now, a serious divide has emerged among the President’s top allies and advisers over how the President should address several nights of protests and riots.”

“Trump is being urged by some advisers to formally address the nation and call for calm, while others have said he should condemn the rioting and looting more forcefully or risk losing middle-of-the-road voters in November”

New York Times: “Some in the president’s circle see the escalations as a political boon, much in the way Richard M. Nixon won the presidency on a law-and-order platform after the 1968 riots.”

.....SNIP"

[Merlot]

1. Why do they not think those "middle of the road voters" won't be blaming trumpft?

he should condemn the rioting and looting more forcefully or risk losing middle-of-the-road voters in November”

It's not like Biden has ever been called "soft on crime" so middle of the road voters (if there really are any) still have a good option.

[demtenjeep]

2. imagine this? THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF THE USA

FOR ONCE in his pathetic little withered life

[CountAllVotes]

3. He should do an LBJ while he still can

Johnson decided to bail and said: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President."

[Grokenstein]

4. "A political boon," y'all. They see this as a "political boon."

And they're thinking about the most corrupt, ended-in-disaster presidency in American history when they say it.

[qazplm135]

5. Nixon was the challenger

In 68.

And he was way more intelligent and better liked.

[Proud liberal 80]

6. Trumps the POTUS

Some in the president’s circle see the escalations as a political boon, much in the way Richard M. Nixon won the presidency on a law-and-order platform after the 1968 riots.”

The difference is that Trump is president unlike in 68 when there was Democratic POTUS.

[hatrack]

7. Maybe they could bring back Pat Buchanan . . . .

You may remember just how well his tub-thumping "LAW AND ORDER!!!!" speech in 1992 went in helping GHW Bush to a second term.

As Molly Ivins noted, "Many people did not enjoy Pat Buchanan's speech. It probably sounded better in the originaly German."

[quaker bill]

8. The essential problem

is that he will handle this no better than the virus.