"A demagogue doesn’t find radicals to lead, he radicalizes his supporters."—@Kasparov63 And they radicalize each other because if everyone around them is doing it, how bad could it be? https://t.co/LC71gWLWS3
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) October 12, 2019
So I guess the Trump rally got kinda weird?
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 11, 2019
Like any other addict, an adulation junkie needs to keep upping his dosage to get the same boost. Trump’s recent rallies just haven’t been doing the job for him — even the LameStream Media is bored watching the same MAGAt DeadBrainHeads yowl LAWKERUP like it was a prayer. So he’s flailing around, looking for that special attention-getting message that will make him feel alive again.
His handlers had him all set up for a good time in Minneapolis — where people vote for Muslim immigrants who are also Black, and even female! — but the natives didn’t take the bait:
Yawn… Welcome to Minneapolis where we pay our bills, we govern with integrity, and we love all of our neighbors. https://t.co/v1cXvoD9uR
— Jacob Frey (@Jacob_Frey) October 8, 2019
Why doesn't he just go to Roseau or Lake of the Woods county and stick them with a huge unpaid bill? https://t.co/6IIVNV6SBN
— Brandi Thee Nice Goose (on Halloween or whatever) (@ItsTheBrandi) October 8, 2019
Seats are emptying as Trump stretches past the 90-minute mark at this Minneapolis MAGA rally. pic.twitter.com/KmAkVPv79k
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 11, 2019
He literally induced an arena of mostly white people to jeer Somali refugees in their community and read off the names of Fox hosts so people would cheer for them. It's journalistic malpractice to cover Trump like a normal politician. https://t.co/NN7AE0nByc
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) October 11, 2019
Friday night, he was shipped to Louisiana to bath in some old-fashioned hardcore racist GOTV… but ended up spending most of the evening angrily defending himself against the morgue’s worth of still-rotting corpses falling out of various Trump closets.
So for his weekend retreat, he dropped in on the hardest of the hardcore — the “Values Voters Summit” evangelical beanfest / witch hunt, where those media representatives not of the body can be barred from spoiling the ‘where we go one, we go all’ happytimes…
President Trump spent a third consecutive night drinking in the adulation of his most diehard supporters https://t.co/XcpJvF3DoL via @bpolitics @JenniferJJacobs #TicToCNews
— Robert Jameson (@rhjameson) October 13, 2019
Pastor Bruson, praying for Trump: "I ask that you give the president supernatural discernment to know who is trustworthy and who is not. Bring into the light all deception and intrigue. Expose and reverse the plans of those who would harm President Trump and this nation." pic.twitter.com/NYwHzRvgBn
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 12, 2019
At the Values Voter Summit, conservative Christians I spoke with had little concern re: Syria pullout and the Kurds:
“I do have a lot faith in President Trump, that he knows things that we don’t know,” Mary Holloway from Texas told me. “People should trust their president.”
— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) October 12, 2019
This is contrary to what we’re hearing in some of the media, particularly in speaking with evangelical leaders who are parroting GOP politicians.
I spoke with a lot of Values Voter attendees — not one criticized Trump on Syria, all having scary faith in him.
— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) October 12, 2019
Trump is delivering an extreme speech: "On every front, the ultra-left is waging war on the values shared by everyone in this room … They are trying to use the courts to rewrite the laws, undermine democracy, and force through an agenda they cannot pass at the ballot box." pic.twitter.com/2ZCoXk2BFs
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 12, 2019
Trump complains that "they are using the IRS against me," but then seems to have a brain meltdown: "Generations of Americans before us … did not work. They fight. They sacrifice. They do so much." #wut pic.twitter.com/vJWUIWkZEV
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 12, 2019
"When I leave in 10 or 14 years … " Trump says at Values Voter Summit. "I'm only kidding."
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 12, 2019
"Joking" about shredding the Constitution and becoming president for life has now become a standard part of Trump's speeches pic.twitter.com/IPgyqU001l
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 13, 2019
Seb Gorka told evangelical crowd at Values Voter Summit, many of them older folks, that they had to fight every day for Trump because he delivered for them.
He ordered them all to create Twitter, Instagram accounts and post every day about how great Trump is. They applauded.
— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) October 12, 2019
This is, I’m legitimately afraid, approaching Jonestown territory. We all make jokes about ‘drinking the koolaid’, but in retrospect many of those 900 deaths have been reclassified from ‘mass suicide’ to ‘mass murder.’ And you know that if Trump decides (is persuaded) that a similar massacre is his only chance at immortality… he’d take it in a New York minute.
