s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 1 狗屁党和疮破如此不堪，连战略都被敌人一眼识破了。
这5000难民团非常可疑，八成是疮破雇人招来助选的。
Trump and Republicans settle on fear — and falsehoods — as a midterm
strategy
President Trump walks from the Oval Office to board Marine One to depart
from the South Lawn of the White House on Monday. (Jabin Botsford/The
Washington Post)
By Ashley Parker ,
Philip Rucker and
Josh Dawsey October 22 at 8:21 PM
President Trump has settled on a strategy of fear — laced with falsehoods
and racially-tinged rhetoric — to help lift his party to victory in the
coming midterms, part of a broader effort to energize Republican voters with
two weeks left until the Nov. 6 elections.
Trump’s messaging — on display in his regular campaign rallies, tweets and
press statements — largely avoids much talk of his achievements and
instead offers an apocalyptic vision of the country, which he warns will
only get worse if Democrats retake control of Congress.
The president has been especially focused in recent days on a caravan of
about 5,000 migrants traveling north to cross the U.S. border, a group he
has darkly characterized as gang members, violent criminals and “unknown
Middle Easterners” — a claim for which his administration has so far
provided no concrete evidence.
“You’re going to find MS-13, you’re going to find Middle Eastern, you’re
going to find everything. And guess what? We’re not allowing them in our
country,” Trump said, when asked by reporters Wednesday if he had any proof
of terrorists infiltrating the caravan. “We want safety.”
The approach in many ways seeks to re-create the 2016 playbook that lifted
Trump to the presidency, in which cultural flash points and controversies,
like the specter of mass illegal migration, helped energize Trump’s
supporters. The president believes his best contrast with Democrats is on
immigration and is looking for a way to keep the issue in the news until the
midterms, advisers said.
Stephen Miller, Trump’s senior policy adviser who has long espoused hard-
line immigration policies, is one of the chief authors of Trump’s rally
messages, though the president often goes further than his prepared remarks.
But unlike two years ago — when some Republicans were hesitant to follow
their nominee’s lead in using divisive rhetoric — Republicans are now more
eagerly following the president’s cues, including in their own campaign
rhetoric and ads.
“It’s a standard tactic to use fear as a motivating choice at the end of a
campaign and the fact is the fork in the road is pretty stark,” said Scott
Reed, senior political strategist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, noting
the possibility of investigations or impeachment proceedings in a Democratic
House.
The overall strategy, Trump advisers and political operatives said, is to
paint a portrait of a chaotic, dangerous world — with Trump and Republicans
as the panacea.
“Voter satisfaction is the enemy of voter turnout,” said Bill Stepien, the
White House political director. “What’s changed is that while voters are
still happy in the direction the president is leading the country, they’re
angry at the way Democrats treated Justice Kavanaugh, they’re scared when
they hear Democrat after Democrat talking about socializing medicine and
Medicare-for-All, and voters are plugged in as the president spends more and
more time on the campaign trail.”
Over the past several weeks, the president has portrayed Democrats as a mob
“too dangerous to govern”; a threat to Medicare and Social Security;
supporters of voter fraud; and funders of caravans of migrants streaming
illegally across the nation’s southern border.
Many of the president’s assertions are false or clear distortions of the
facts. Trump is incorrect, for example, in his claim that Democrats will “
destroy” both Medicare and Social Security, while he has made both programs
“stronger.” There is also no evidence that Democrats are paying for the
migrant caravan snaking its way north toward the southern border, while
voter fraud remains exceedingly rare.
But that has not stopped the president from repeating such false or
misleading claims, in part because advisers say his key midterm strategy is
to fuel Republican turnout by riling up his most avid supporters, often
through frightening and emotional appeals.
On this point, Democrats agree.
“As Election Day approaches, the president is running the only play he
knows: fear,” said Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.). “He’s seeking to
suppress the vote of those who oppose him with the threat of prosecution and
trying to motivate his supporters with round-the-clock talk of the caravan.
This strategy reflects Trump’s bankruptcy of ideas and a realization that
it’s not mobs going to the polls, but moms. Lots of moms.”
The migrant caravan has proved to be a particularly effective wedge issue
for Trump, according to White House aides and Republican operatives. Images
of the caravan are already dominating cable news coverage, allowing Trump to
revive an issue that was successful for him two years ago.
Barry Bennett, a former Trump campaign adviser, described the caravan as “a
political gift.”
“I wish they were carrying heroin. I wish we had thought of it. It speaks
to the dearth of our creativity, unfortunately,” Bennett said. “There are
7,000 people marching toward the U.S. border. One party wants to let them in
. The other party wants to keep them out.”
Newt Gingrich, a Trump ally and former House speaker, has begun calling the
caravans “an invasion,” and hosted a Facebook Live chat Monday under the
headline “the #caravan attack on America.”
“Voters are motivated by fear and they’re also motivated by anger,”
Gingrich said in an interview with The Washington Post. “When I see 7,000
people marching towards my border carrying Honduran flags and arrogantly
demanding that we allow them to cross, the first reaction I feel is anger.
They are trying to invade my home.”
Trump seems intent on keeping the focus on the migrants as well. In a
telephone interview with The Post on Saturday about the killing of Saudi
journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the president at one point began to complain
about the Central American caravan and argue that new actions were required
at the border. He declined to offer specifics.
In a series of tweets Monday, Trump warned without offering evidence that “
criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in” and urged voters to
“think of and blame the Democrats for not giving us the votes to change our
pathetic Immigration Laws!” A Trump-backed immigration plan failed to pass
earlier this year, but not just because of Democrats: 14 Republicans also
opposed the bill.
Trump’s claim — again, without providing evidence — that Middle
Easterners are “mixed in” with the caravan is an example of how some
leaders blend a mix of fact and fiction to instill fear in their electorate,
said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a New York University professor who studies
authoritarian rulers.
“This is the way propaganda works,” Ben-Ghiat said. “You put different
enemies together that really have nothing to do with one another. He’s
trying to create this image of a wave of people of color, or threats, who
are coming to invade the border.”
At last Thursday’s rally in Missoula, Mont., Trump alleged without evidence
that Democrats were paying migrants to enter the United States so that they
could vote for Democratic candidates.
“A lot of money’s been passing to people to come up and try and get to the
border by Election Day, because they think that’s a negative for us,”
Trump said. He added that Democrats like “the illegal immigration onslaught
” because “everybody coming in is going to vote Democrat.”
The president went on to posit that some of the migrants attempting to cross
the border into the United States were “hardened criminals” and “bad
people,” but again declined to cite any evidence.
When a reporter asked him for an example, he dismissed her question with, “
Oh, please, please, don’t be a baby.”
If the caravan is the president’s current favored cudgel against his rivals
, it is not his only one. Trump also accused Democrats of wanting to “take
away your health care,” “destroy your Second Amendment” and “throw open
your borders to deadly drugs and vicious gangs.” None of those things
appears in the platforms of Democratic challengers.
Republicans accuse Democrats of using scare tactics as well. They are
warning voters that the president and his party will decimate their health-
care coverage by repealing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare,
and arguing, to varying degrees, that Trump is unfit to lead the nation.
But Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen argued that, so far, Democrats are
largely unwilling to employ the same strategies as the president.
“I don’t think we have come up with a formula yet where hysteria matches
hysteria effectively,” Rosen said. “I know some people think we’re going
to have to get there in 2020, but we’re definitely not there now.” | c*******o
发帖数: 8869 | 2 可能奏效，劳模一吓不敢出来投票了。
【在 s******r 的大作中提到】
: 狗屁党和疮破如此不堪，连战略都被敌人一眼识破了。
: 这5000难民团非常可疑，八成是疮破雇人招来助选的。
: Trump and Republicans settle on fear — and falsehoods — as a midterm
: strategy
: President Trump walks from the Oval Office to board Marine One to depart
: from the South Lawn of the White House on Monday. (Jabin Botsford/The
: Washington Post)
: By Ashley Parker ,
: Philip Rucker and
: Josh Dawsey October 22 at 8:21 PM
| S*****l
发帖数: 1043 | | s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 4 劳模比老中胆子大得多，毕竟是刀尖上讨生活过来的，而且这次投票和自己利益切实相
关。 疮破主要是想激发红脖种猪主义者出来投票。
这次如果民主党赢不了，美国肯定要大乱。
【在 c*******o 的大作中提到】
: 可能奏效，劳模一吓不敢出来投票了。
| s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 5 劳资不急，喝着小酒看戏。你急啥？
【在 S*****l 的大作中提到】
: 楼主急了，要跳墙了，哈哈
| S*****l
发帖数: 1043 | 6 你不急还每天上网法帖关注川大统领和GOP?
【在 s******r 的大作中提到】
: 劳资不急，喝着小酒看戏。你急啥？
| d**s
发帖数: 4741 | 7 要是共和党真把仅有的那点医保社保砍了 这群白人就是求仁得仁 问题是啥时候砍 别
不砍
【在 s******r 的大作中提到】
: 劳模比老中胆子大得多，毕竟是刀尖上讨生活过来的，而且这次投票和自己利益切实相
: 关。 疮破主要是想激发红脖种猪主义者出来投票。
: 这次如果民主党赢不了，美国肯定要大乱。
| s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 8 当局反移民至少和不少老中直接相关，跟咱也间接相关，在这个垃圾网站也没啥别的话
想说，转发点政治科普就算服务同胞把。
【在 S*****l 的大作中提到】
: 你不急还每天上网法帖关注川大统领和GOP?
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