Late Thursday evening, shortly before leaving the Lafayette square in front of the White House, two supporters of Donald Trump came in front of me to taunt several dozen supporters of Black Lives Matter, the movement for the defense of black rights. Not easy to understand everything that the two provocateurs were shouting through their megaphone, but the distortions revolved around “Go home!” It’s finish “.
It is the reflex, after two weeks of political convention, that the Democratic and Republican parties would like the Americans to have: conclude that the evidence is overwhelming, that Donald Trump – according to the Democrats – has managed the pandemic so badly that the 180,000 deaths are due to him, while Joe Biden – for Republicans – will cede the country to extremists and looters.
Dark times we live in, to hear them. Trump threatens democracy; Biden, the United States as we know it. No half measures. But if the Democrats cried wolf, the Republicans, them, brought out the heavy artillery.
For Jim Jordan, congressman from Ohio, the daily life of the cities managed by the Democrats can be summed up in a few words: crimes, violence and the rule of the masses (“mob rule”). The warning issued by another congressman – Matt Gaetz, of Florida – distresses even more: “The Democrats will disarm you, empty the prisons, lock you in your home and invite MS-13 (one of the most violent Latin American gangs) to live next door. “
NOT BEAT, DESTROY
The messages from the two campaigns that I receive – several times a day in my inbox – reflect this intransigence of views. However, with a breathtaking difference in tone. Democrats denounce Trump as incompetent, a liar and alarmist. Republicans – and more specifically, Donald Trump and his relatives – quickly fall for insult and gloomy intentions.
In the early hours of the Republican convention last Monday, a message from Trump claimed that “Slow Joe and Phony Kamala are floundering,” adding that the Democratic Party had held “the darkest, most angry and depressing convention in history. “. Yesterday morning another email asked for a financial contribution, because “I want to make sure that we absolutely destroy Slow Joe and Phony Kamala” … signed Donald J. Trump, President of the United States.
IN THOUGHT, IN WORD AND IN ACTION
It was questioned whether the demonization of the Biden-Harris tandem, using unrest and insecurity, will push paranoid people into action. It is difficult to see otherwise these so-called militiamen who are organizing themselves to supposedly defend the property of honest citizens against “left rioters”. With tragic consequences, the deaths of two people on Tuesday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, apparently killed by a 17-year-old gun enthusiast.
The White House washes its hands of it. “We are not responsible for the private behavior of people who attend our gatherings. Worse yet, conservative commentators see a hero in the teenager. Ann Coulter wants to “make him her president”; a right-wing user promises him a slew of “conservative girls in heat”.
Radicalization rifle! That’s the case to say.
