President Trump is so accustomed to preaching to the reactionary choir that he can’t help but phrase his warnings about left-wing extremism in the terms of a right-wing extremist. EricLevitz writes
The puppet master? Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images For months now, Donald Trump has been portraying Joe Biden as a rickety old Trojan horse chock-full of antifa super soldiers.
In the abstract, this narrative has some political potential. Some progressive policies that Harris adopted last year, such as the decriminalization of illegal border crossing, poll very poorly. And several ideas that Harris hasn’t endorsed, but which are now associated with the American left, such as the defunding of the police, also lack broad popularity.
All this said, consistency in messaging can be overrated. To the extent that the Trump campaign successfully matches its mutually contradictory messages to their disparate target audiences, its efforts to portray Biden as both too soft on crime and too supportive of harsh, racist criminal-justice policies could pay dividends.
In other words, Trump craves reverence more than ballots, and only the GOP base offers him the former. Thus, he is forever seeking to elicit the adulation of his party’s faithful, rather than to win the tepid support of reluctant converts. The administration’s various conservative apparatchiks have reinforced Trump’s neurotic fixation by warning him that failing to pursue their desired policy will risk alienating his core supporters.
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