{"id":46589,"date":"2020-09-06T12:43:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T19:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46589"},"modified":"2020-09-06T12:43:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T19:43:55","slug":"trumps-fascist-law-and-order-rhetoric-is-making-things-worse-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46589","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Fascist ‘Law and Order’ Rhetoric is Making Things Worse: POLL"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reelection prospects for Donald Trump have been mired in an abyss of doom for months. Joe Biden is crushing him in every national poll as well as in most of the crucial swing states. And the post-convention polling has only gotten worse for Trump<\/a><\/strong>. That, of course, is not a reason to become complacent or to work less vigorously. Victory is not assured until the votes are counted.<\/p>\n

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Trump, however, has a real problem. He can’t campaign on the economy, which is in recession. He can’t campaign on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has been a model of deadly negligence and incompetence with deaths nearing 190,000. He can’t campaign on character, because…well, because he’s Donald Trump. So that leaves only one path available for him to stagger down: Fear and division.<\/p>\n

Consequently, Trump has wholly embraced a campaign theme centered on terrorizing the American people. The catch phrase most often associated with him is “law and order,”<\/em> which he has tweeted 52 times so far this year alone. He is painting a hellish picture of the nation<\/a><\/strong> as being engulfed in flames with violent insurgents occupying vast territories of major cities and threatening to invade the serenity of white suburbia.<\/p>\n

These dystopian delusions have been the core of Trump’s campaign strategy for weeks. He mostly has been maligning the demonstrations against police brutality and systemic racism. According to Trump “These are not acts of peaceful protest but really domestic terror.”<\/em> And now we have some evidence of just how badly his tactics are failing. A new poll by ABC News\/Ipsos<\/a><\/strong> has found that…<\/p>\n

“Over half of the country — 55% … said they think Trump is aggravating the situation, while just over one in 10 Americans, 13%, said they think he is making it better.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thirteen percent barely amounts to a third of his base support, so even most of his cult followers don’t think he’s making things better. The poll goes on to ask a series of questions related to public safety and which candidate for president is best suited to handle the crises that the nation faces. The results show that “Between the two candidates, more Americans trust Biden over Trump to…”<\/em><\/p>\n