Overnight Donald Trump promoted a video featuring an extreme close-up photo of his face in black and white, and audio of him making an obvious threat: “If you f— around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.”
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It wins with his base because they’ve been conditioned to think of everyone else as their enemy who deserve punishment. Furthermore, Trump himself is billed as a victim of persecution.
You’re right, the way he boosted this allows him to insulate himself against prosecution. But it’s still hate speech and he’s still boosting it. This is what we can look forward to if he’s not put in prison for the rest of his natural life.
I agree, but note I said the general election, not the primary, which is where I do see it working. He simply needs more than that to appeal to independents in the general election, without whom, he cannot win.
It shouldn’t have worked before, either. Trump plays to the base emotions of conservative voters, the fear and anger that defines them. So if we don’t want a repeat of 2016, get out the vote.