Former President Donald Trump on Saturday attempted to turn the tables on his likely rival in November, President Joe Biden, arguing that the man whose election victory Trump tried to overturn is “the destroyer of American democracy.”
Trump’s allegations about Biden, a Democrat, echo the ones that Biden has been making for years against his predecessor. As Trump has dominated the Republican presidential primary and talked about targeting his rivals and the news media if he wins the White House again, Biden has stepped up his own warnings, contending Trump is “ determined to destroy American democracy.”
On Saturday, Trump made his most explicit argument to date on why voters should instead see his rival as the bigger democratic threat. Trump repeated his longstanding contention that the four criminal indictments against him show Biden is misusing the federal justice system against his rival.
“He’s been weaponizing government against his political opponents like a Third World political tyrant,” Trump said to a crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “Biden and his radical left allies like to pose as standing up as allies of democracy,” Trump continued, arguing: “Joe Biden is not the defender of American democracy, Joe Biden is the destroyer of American democracy.”
Well Trump makes doing indefensible things his thing. The more coverage he gets the more people believe this is s valid strategy. He should never even have been taken seriously at all.
The media get all wound up on the constant outrage, people rage click on the next stupid thing. Doing this shit gets normalized. -> the cycle continues.
The silence of Trump bring banned from Twitter and the American president not saying stupid shit every day was heavenly. But now again everything he says gets put in headlines again.
Hell even me engaging here makes him more relevant than he ever should have been. The media are implicit. How great it would be if everybody just ghosted this imbicile.
Not being able to hear him say stupid shit doesn’t make him less stupid - but it does allow people to think he’s not as stupid as he is.