Trump Returns To Campaign Trail With A Familiar Message In A Changing World

In his first big campaign event since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, President Trump reached back into his culture war playbook to paint an image of a left-wing extremist dystopia that will take hold if he is defeated and Democratic opponent Joe Biden is elected this November.

“If the Democrats gain power, then the rioters will be in charge and no one will be safe and no one will have control,” Trump said to a crowd, which numbered in the thousands but failed to fill an arena in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday night and was far smaller than Trump’s campaign promised. “Joe Biden is not the leader of his party. Joe Biden is a helpless puppet of the radical left.”

But then Trump seemed to undercut that message, saying of Biden, “He’s not radical left” and that “he was never radical left. But now he’s controlled by the radical left.” Continue reading.