Trump 2020: Loathing and Fear of Losing

The president is setting up his reelection run to be about socialism, ‘the squad’ and scaring voters about the Democratic Party.

THE ONLY SURPRISING aspect to President Donald Trump’s racially charged tirade this week is that some seemed surprised by it.

“Yet again this president finds a new low,” said Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota, a home state colleague to Rep. Ilhan Omar, the prime target of Trump’s invective.

But for a president who has shattered nearly every conventional rule of politics and endured a cascade of uproars – from his birther campaign to insulting a national war hero to the “Access Hollywood” tape to the two-year wide-reaching investigation into his curious relationship with Russia – Trump has been taught that survival requires brazen, line-crossing, double-fisted pugilism.

View the complete July 19 article by David Catanese on The U.S. News and World Report website here.