Tag: Trumpism

Two Years and Hundreds of Inflammatory Ads Later, the G.O.P. Is the Party of Trump

Supporters of President Trump at a rally in Macon, GA. Credi: tGabriella Demczuk, The New York Times

The Republican Party’s post-mortem after Mitt Romney lost his presidential bid to Barack Obama in 2012 was brutally straightforward: Expand the tent or risk extinction. “We need to campaign among Hispanic, black, Asian and gay Americans and demonstrate we care about them, too,” party leaders wrote.

Regardless of the results on Tuesday, that playbook is gone, burned and buried, and it is not going to be easy to retrieve it from the dump. The Republican Party is now the party of President Trump.

The dark politics of anger, division and fear were on display in campaigns across the country this year, as Republican candidates for Congress and governor — and fringe groups who support them — embraced the racially inflammatory brand of politics that Mr. Trump unleashed in 2016. With the presidential campaign of 2020 effectively underway on Wednesday, there is little reason to think Mr. Trump will back away from a tactic that clearly rallies his base.

View the complete November 6 article by SHeryl Gay Stolberg on The New York Times website here.

‘Full Trumpism’: The president’s apocalyptic attacks reach a new level of falsity

President Trump criticized Georgia Democratic governor candidate Stacey Abrams at a Nov. 4 rally in Macon, Ga. (The Washington Post)

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — President Trump is painting an astonishingly apocalyptic vision of America under Democratic control in the campaign’s final days, unleashing a torrent of falsehoods and portraying his political opponents as desiring crime, squalor and poverty.

As voters prepare to render their first verdict on his presidency in Tuesday’s midterm elections, Trump is claiming that Democrats want to erase the nation’s borders and provide sanctuary to drug dealers, human traffickers and MS-13 killers. He is warning that they would destroy the economy, obliterate Medicare and unleash a wave of violent crime that endangers families everywhere. And he is alleging that they would transform the United States into Venezuela with socialism run amok.

Trump has never been hemmed in by fact, fairness or even logic. The 45th president proudly refuses to apologize and routinely violates the norms of decorum that guided his predecessors. But at one mega-rally after another in the run-up to Tuesday’s midterm elections, Trump has taken his no-boundaries political ethos to a new level — demagoguing the Democrats in a whirl of distortion and using the power of the federal government to amplify his fantastical arguments.

“In Trump We Trust”

The following article by Tracy Downey was posted on the Medium.com website May 15, 2017:

Hubris is the devil’s greatest aphrodisiac, and the ruin of an imprudent soul. It is of great mystery how an adulterating, thrice-married, bankrupted former casino owner, living inside of a tower made of gold became the savior of America’s Christian values. Our newly elected president swore to turn D.C. upside down with an acidic tongue, and a bombastic, mind numbing philosophy that whatever he believes is the Gospel according to Donald Trump. That includes Christianity.

Let that sink in. Continue reading ““In Trump We Trust””