Posted on 12/23/2019 8:25:42 AM PST by RightGeek
On its face, a tweet President Trump sent last week is fairly benign. It doesn’t mock anyone, isn’t personally nasty and hasn’t caused any hair-on-fire controversy.
Yet it is powerful in its own way, for it artfully sums up the Trump era from the perspective of the president and his supporters. With a likeness to the Uncle Sam “I want you” poster, the disrupter-in-chief reaffirms in 14 words the belief of Trump Nation that the political establishment, the media, the permanent bureaucracy and yes, the deep state are trying to crush him and them.
Critics regard it as fear-mongering, and there is no denying that the president wanted to rally his base, lest it be discouraged by the day’s events.
Yet Trump’s oblique reference to a weaponized and powerful adversary is hardly unfounded, with a partisan, flimsy impeachment the latest example. The tweet’s siren call to believers is a shorthand way of saying that impeachment is just a continuation of the endless attacks against us.
Indeed, his presidency effectively begins with a prophecy of those attacks, one that came 17 days before Trump took the oath.
“Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Sen. Chuck Schumer said on MSNBC.
It was an incredible thing to say in a nation where the people are supposedly sovereign, but soon it would become clear that Schumer knew what he was talking about, which still raises questions.
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BTTT.
BTTT.
LOL this is an absurdly stupid talking point from the DNC
“They are after you” can not in any way shape for form be twisted to be an incitement to political violence in anything resembling an even remotely rational adult mind.
Compare and contrast this benign statement to the real violent rhetoric about Trump being a tyrant wanna be, a “threat to our Democracy” etc that has poured unceasing forth from these same propaganda bots and Democrat political activist from Biden to Hillary Clinton to ABC/NBC/See BS etc
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