This is what America and the world gets with President that was NOT a seasoned politician …
Oh yea?
Donald Trump LOST his effort to get a second term, eh?
But the Economist puts the focus where it needs to be, which is on the former president — what he did during his first term, including what he did to help provoke the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, and, most important, how much farther out he has gone rhetorically and substantively since then to preview what a second term might portend….
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With Trump facing four criminal indictments involving 91 felony counts, the campaign could be as much courtroom drama as rallies and ads. How will voters process a conviction if that were to occur?
Trump’s rhetoric has become more extreme; it is language associated with authoritarian leaders of the past. The latest and most provocative came during a Veterans Day speech in New Hampshire, when he said this: “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections.”
Those words quickly echoed across the country and beyond, reported by news organizations and replayed again and again on cable television. Should what he said be taken neither literally nor seriously, or has a Rubicon been crossed that, with an upcoming election, requires that he be taken both literally and seriously?…
The next day, Trump swooped into Iowa for his own event — where he lobbed insults, made crude references and casually tossed out baseless and false claims designed to belittle his opponents and critics in vicious terms. Children wandered around in shirts and hats with the letters “FJB,” an abbreviation for an obscene jab at President Biden that other merchandise spelled out: “F— Biden.”
During his speech inside a high school gym in Fort Dodge, former president Trump called one GOP rival a “son of a b—-,” referred to another as “birdbrain” and had the crowd shrieking with laughter at his comments on Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), who he called “pencil neck” before asking, “How does he hold up that fat, ugly face?” He brought the house down while mocking Biden, at one point baselessly suggesting Biden is using drugs and can’t get offstage “by the time whatever it is he’s taken wears off.”….
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Trump’s coarseness and cruelty have come to define the Republican Party since his rise to the presidency — and many GOP voters relish and emulate the approach, while others tolerate it. The split-screen on display in Iowa on Friday and Saturday highlighted one of the defining dynamics in the Republican race, in which Trump is the dominant polling leader overshadowing a roster of candidates running more traditional campaigns….
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Campaigning for president again, Trump’s rhetoric has only escalated…..
image…Trump waits to take the witness stand at New York Supreme Court on Nov. 6…Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post…
You always end any discussion concerning Trump with repeating the well known fact that he lost in 2020.
Leaving aside for the moment the fact that a change of about 75000 votes in several states and he would have won,
What exactly does that have to do with the point of this article or for that matter any discussion of the 2024 election?
DONALD TRUMP LOST Jack……..
People act like he’s so DAMN INEVITABLE…..
He ain’t……
That IS my POINT…,.
Oh quit lying doofus.
No one but a Trump obsessed yakking boob like you would claim that anyone who writes anything about Trump is somehow claiming that he is “damn inevitable.”
Indeed the story that jingled your obsession is one about how the Republican Party has become as coarse and obscene as the lying cheat himself.
A totally accurate description in my view.
He, he, he………
Yea?
I’m the ONLY ONE writing that Trump COULD win…..
U tripping…..
And Trump NEVER uses the words‘when I win’……
As a matter of fact?
Trump’s people are ALREADY mapping out policy for him, something no other candidate is doing….
As was mentioned…….
It IS the interest of the media to take current polling and extend it into a Trump COULD generate headlines for another FIVE YEARS
Are these posts supposed to be in reply to mine?
They have nothing to do with this article or my previous posts.
Not surprising I might add.
Nah!
My comment’s where about ALL the who think Trump is gonna LOSE AGAIN?😆
Who thinks that?
Satire……..😉