Posted on 09/15/2020 12:36:17 PM PDT by Hojczyk
If President Trump defies today's swing-state polls and pulls off another upset, what will we have missed that could have been a clue?
Here's a big one: Trump flotillas ... Trump flags bigger than American flags ... Trump truck rallies ... Trump shirts ... Trump underwear ... lawns that don't have a Trump-Pence sign or two but 50 or even 100 — a forest.
Why it matters: To his diehard supporters, Trump isn't just a candidate. He's a lifestyle choice and a vehicle for self-expression — a way to continually flip the middle finger at big media, big business, big government ... anything big.
It's all part of one of the big Trump triumphs — convincing his voters that an attack on him is actually an attack on them. A hat, popular in rural convenience stores this summer, says it all: "If You Don't Like Trump Then You Probably Won't Like Me."
At rallies, you see people wearing Trump flags like a billowing robe. And a lot of this isn't official campaign merch — people print these up themselves. At a Trumper classic-car rally in Michigan this weekend, one red, white and blue Trump flag — in place of "Keep America Great" — said, "NO MORE B.S.," with the last word spelled out. Nearby, a man wore a flag-bedecked t-shirt proclaiming: "JESUS IS MY SAVIOR / TRUMP IS MY PRESIDENT."
Trump regattas are everywhere, from the solid South to the fancy waters of Mystic, Conn. (Bad metaphorical optics when five Trump boats, swamped by the wake from a massive lake rally, sank near Austin over Labor Day.)
(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...
More from article... is the left getting scared??
“Axios on HBO” went to Lake of the Ozarks, Mo., to explore this phenomenon for a segment we call, “Trump on the lake.”
Axios CEO Jim VandeHei: “In your lifetime, do you ever remember a Ronald Reagan flag as big as the American flag in somebody’s front yard? Do you ever remember someone spray painting ‘Obama’ on their boat?”
White House editor Margaret Talev: “No, but there’s never been a president whose brand was branding. ... They like the fact that he says things that you’re not allowed to say — that he says things that they feel that they can’t say at work or in mixed company.”
Randy Kelly, a retired boat dealer who has lived at Lake of the Ozarks since moving down from Kansas City 43 years ago, told “Axios on HBO”:
“If you see someone that has on a Trump hat, there’s a camaraderie: Hey, we got something in common.”
The bottom line: Trump touts a “silent majority,” and pundits pundit about “shy Trump voters” who may be missed by pollsters.
But one of the stories of this election is that the Trump vote is screaming, not silent.
They don’t get it. Bubbles are hard things.
convincing his voters that an attack on him is actually an attack on them...
Convincing, convincing??? These idiots still don’t get it! The Dem cesspool “IS” an attack on US! Hell they say it openly ever day! But that’s how STUPID and uninformed the other side is that axwhore must try and portray it that way!
Trumpy Bear
We are at war. It’s a different type of war, but still war. The president has put a coalition of people together that would have previously been political foes. The good faith people of the center and left are appalled by the Democrats. Hispanics, blacks, gays...joining us in larger numbers than ever.
Was just about to say, shame on them for not mentioning Trumpy Bear!
And that is why we must vote in Yuge over whelming numbers and be ready to fight if that’s what they want!
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