Posted on 07/04/2020 3:25:22 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
On a very different Fourth of July, when many Americans are wrestling with the racist misdeeds of the country's heroes and confronting an unrelenting pandemic with surging cases, their commander-in-chief is attempting to drag America backward -- stirring fear of cultural change while flouting the most basic scientific evidence about disease transmission.
In a jaw-dropping speech that amounted to a culture war bonfire, President Trump used the backdrop of Mount Rushmore to frame protesters as a nefarious left-wing mob that intends to "end America." Those opponents, he argued, are engaged in a "merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children."
The President largely acted as if the coronavirus didn't exist.
Instead, when Trump spoke on Friday night of a "growing danger," he was talking about an entirely different threat than rising coronavirus cases. He referred to a threat to America's "heritage" -- rhetoric intended to rev up his base at a time when many Americans are attempting to relearn the nation's history with greater attention to the wrongs inflicted on Black and Native American people.
Repeatedly using vague pronouns like "they" and "them," Trump sought to play on the fears of a minority who view the rise of Black Lives Matter as a threat to the historical dominance of White people.
One of "their political weapons," he said, is "cancel culture," which would drive people from their jobs and "demand total submission" from anyone who disagrees.
He mysteriously described those who would tear down statues of racist leaders from the past as "a new far left fascism that demands absolute allegiance."
"If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted and punished," Trump said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
CNN RIGGED a “town hall debate” in 2016 giving Hitlery Rotten Clinton the questions ahead of time to defeat Bernie Socialist.
A rigged debate is a rigged election.
Screw these despots. Defund the Left. Starve the beast.
Related to Markle?
WOW! If there was ever any doubt how liberal CNN was, it was thrown out the window with that article. This is how the “mob” is brainwashed.
When will it become apparent that we will have to fight to keep what we have or lose it? Besides Trump who is on our side?
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