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Trump’s strategic attack on ‘The Squad’ unfolding as he planned
American Thinker ^ | 07/16/2019 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 07/16/2019 7:54:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Once again, President Trump has flaunted his scorn for the media-defined norms of the American political conversation. Under those informal rules, Republicans can be labeled racists with impunity and America can be trashed as irredeemably racist, evil, and shameful. But any criticism of “people of color” for expressing such views is racist, as Nancy Pelosi discovered so recently.

Many Republicans have internalized these norms, knowing that their colleagues in professions dominated by an educated and credentialed workforce have scorn for Trump’s attacks on the four freshman congresswomen Nancy Pelosi ruefully dubbed “The Squad.” Their neighbors in upscale communities are equally likely to be “aghast” that anyone would mention that people who frequently proclaim a racial and ethnic identity that sets them apart from just plain Americans would be reminded that, unlike Communist East Germany for instance, they are free to leave. And they can come back after showing how well their ideas work in places they imply America has impoverished and oppressed.

President Trump has, from the beginning of his campaign, cared not a whit about the criticism he receives for violating those norms. He believes that those rules of the game slant the conversation toward victories for the Left, eagerly enforced by the Mainstream Media, academia, and the cultural institutions dominated by progressives.

He also knows that people who already believe him to be a vulgar, racist, unacceptable “occupant of the White House” (as Ilham Omar called him yesterday, unwilling to concede that he is a lawfully-elected president) will criticize anything he says. So, there is no loss to him in provoking that camp.

The key group that he must worry about are the undecided voters who swing elections, and the much-vaunted suburban women, who shun harshness and who live in neighborhoods where Trump may be less than popular.

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MEET: THE SQUAD
1 posted on 07/16/2019 7:54:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Under those informal rules, Republicans can be labeled racists with impunity and America can be trashed as irredeemably racist, evil, and shameful.

Also Republicans must not fight back in any way, even to the slightest degree. Any resistance will cause an enraged freak-out reaction, which the MSM will amplify.

George W. Bush was a fervent believer in the "informal rules."

2 posted on 07/16/2019 7:58:28 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Steely Tom

The diddly squat squad


3 posted on 07/16/2019 7:59:34 AM PDT by cnsmom (G)
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To: SeekAndFind

Liberals are free to criticize at will but how dare conservatives criticize them.

For the photoshop experts can you type in Motel6 on Ilhan’s towel.


4 posted on 07/16/2019 7:59:47 AM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: SeekAndFind

eeny meeny miny and moe


5 posted on 07/16/2019 8:04:02 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SeekAndFind
I think that Trump is calculating that in any contest between The Squad and Trump in terms of alienating these persuadables, sustained attention will favor him. Yesterday’s press conference by The Squad, which has received obsessive media coverage, made that bet pay off.

I agree, my wife wishes he wouldn't call people sleazebags, doesn't think that's the right language, but she will enthusiastically vote for him over the radicals.

6 posted on 07/16/2019 8:04:46 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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”The key group that he must worry about are the undecided voters who swing elections, and the much-vaunted suburban women, who shun harshness and who live in neighborhoods where Trump may be less than popular.”

Not so much as a scintilla of evidence to support this. Trump won precisely because those women voted for him over sick sad Cankles 2:1. They voted for him then, they’re gonna vote for him again when the opposition is hoodrats raising their hands to give free medical care to illegal immigrants, when this suburban woman can’t afford to have her kids cavity fixed.

7 posted on 07/16/2019 8:05:25 AM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: cnsmom

Jihad Squad


8 posted on 07/16/2019 8:05:40 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No, not “Meet the Squad” unless you are referring to a Nazi, Communist or ISIS execution squad.

They should be referred to as “The Squatters” as in my friend Liz Warren, AKA among Indian tribes as “She who squats with buffalos”.

These women would have been great at Auschwitz, the Mt. Scopus Massacre of over 50 Jewish medical students in Israel during the war for independence, Potma slave labor camp complex in Siberia, Lil Kim’s family personal gulag known as No. Korea, Red China’s genocide against the Tibetanese, Castro’s firing squads and torture house led by Che (Colin Kaeperknicks’s favor guy), Hoxha’s Albanian House of Pain and Death, the Ortega Brothers secret torture and execution cells in Nicaragua, and the ISIS and Iranian torture and mass murder “bread and circuses” shows.

These people are psychopathologically “sick” and need to be politically destroyed like the rabid/feral rats that they are.

“Suburban mothers” are finally waking up as to just how sick and dangerous they are, TO THEIR CHILDREN BECAUSE THEIR CHILDREN MAY ONE DAY DISAGREE WITH THESE “SQUATTERS” AND SUFFER BADLY FROM IT.

Remember, ANTIFA is nothing but the street arm of these traitors and they know where you live. Just ask Tucker Carlson.


9 posted on 07/16/2019 8:06:16 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: seawolf101

LOL! I thought it was a marshmallow.


10 posted on 07/16/2019 8:06:49 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Cowboy Bob

The Cleopatra hat


11 posted on 07/16/2019 8:09:05 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: bigbob

I like that too.


12 posted on 07/16/2019 8:10:53 AM PDT by cnsmom (G)
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To: butlerweave

eeny meeny miny moe


Be careful! The next line is obviously racist. In fact, the first line is racist, because it makes people think of the second line even though most are too polite to say it aloud. You have provoked a thoughtcrime.


13 posted on 07/16/2019 8:11:00 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: SeekAndFind

And Joni Ernst and Kevin McCarthy have proved themselves disloyal, and thus expendable.


14 posted on 07/16/2019 8:12:10 AM PDT by montag813
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To: SeekAndFind

The news headlines popping up on my iPhone all refer to POTUS Trump’s “racist” Tweets, EVERY time.

Unfortunately, most folks don’t bother to actually research what was actually Tweeted by POTUS Trump, but rely on the DNC Media Headlines to inform themselves.

Seeking out the Truth in our Republic shouldn’t be a difficult task, but the DNC Media makes it so.


15 posted on 07/16/2019 8:14:02 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Socialism is a gateway Ideology.)
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Unfortunately, most folks don’t bother to actually research what was actually Tweeted by POTUS Trump, but rely on the DNC Media Headlines to inform themselves.

I wish more people would understand that fact.

16 posted on 07/16/2019 8:23:31 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Steely Tom
The informal rules count Mitt Romney, House Minority Leader McCarthy,Peggy Noonan, Bill Kristol, Jeff Sessions, Paul Ryan, the staff of National Review, Michael Medved, and Meghan McCain as adherents. Trump Derangement Syndrome also infects the likes of Ron Paul, Fred Reed and Anne Coulter, not squishes like the first group but still out to lunch on the current President.

I have to wonder if God has not sent Trump, like Samson, to take down the temple of the wicked.

17 posted on 07/16/2019 8:25:11 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: SeekAndFind

“He also knows that people who already believe him to be a vulgar, racist, unacceptable ‘occupant of the White House’ (as Ilham Omar called him yesterday, unwilling to concede that he is a lawfully-elected president) will criticize anything he says. So, there is no loss to him in provoking that camp.”

In for a penny, in for a pound. lol.


18 posted on 07/16/2019 8:28:20 AM PDT by rudy45
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To: hanamizu

It’s a Tiger by the toe


19 posted on 07/16/2019 8:37:45 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Irish Eyes

They aren’t just Fake News, they are The Fake News DNC Media Propaganda Machine. They prove it over and over again.

Can’t wait until POTUS Trump’s Rally tomorrow. It will be like pouring Nitroglycerine into the fire.


20 posted on 07/16/2019 8:43:04 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Socialism is a gateway Ideology.)
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