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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
Unless the rank and file has turned on 45 (in exchange for him getting a finders fee for bounties on troops) and had a mole feed it to him. Not sure what your sources say (I have none) but I think there's no way they follow him into something stupid. I think Biden wins and 45 gets escorted out in cuffs.
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I think if there's any aim it is to drive turnout in swing states by scaring older voters. "Look! Antifa's coming!"
I live in a supposed swing state. People here don't seem interested in this story, or the Seattle story. They view Portland and Seattle as loony bins very different than purple states like this one.
Minneapolis, however, definitely had people freaked out.
Trump is losing here, badly I think, because people right next door to NJ and NY were legitimately scared. And when they were scared, the Governor, not the President, provided leadership. We enjoyed only a moderate hit in terms of cases, deaths (overwhelming majority in nursing homes), and economic pain. But everybody, and I mean everybody, is and has been wearing masks. There's no tolerance for the political argument over masks. Even the stanchest conservatives here wear them. Meanwhile, the President dog whistled to rubes all over the Bible Belt they didn't need masks.
Trump tried to sell anti-science here and was rejected. Now he's trying to sell law n' order? People will still vote for him for tax reasons and to protect fracking, but no one is buying the law n' order bullshit.
I think this will be repeated through the Rust Belt. People there don't care much about what happens in Chicago, or any other large city blue city where Trump may use troops. But they can spot a desperate and cynical political ploy when they see it.
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