Last week may have marked off a turning point in the 2020 election, Trump made it clear his reelection strategy boils down to one word, Racism.
Trump is playing a risky game, pissing off all minorities, while cementing his relationship with white men. If everyone who is offended by Trump votes for the Democratic candidate Trump is an overcooked ham omelet.
If you ever have watched Professional Wrestling, and watched how the heroes and villains interact with the crowd. In those crowds are the jeopardy Trumps, “Send her back,” chant has put him in. The crowd is there for red meat. The right word or expression from Trump rally crowd to a hungry, angry crowd, is lighting a cigarette in a explosives factory. They are there to chant. Thay want to chant. Once the chanting starts it won’t stop.
The best-selling “MAGA” merchandise, today, indicates how amped-up Trump’s mob are: of course there is the clever 70’s redux, “LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT,” a great visual is offed in the classic, “LET ME HELP YOU PACK!,” there is the slightly confusing, “BUILD THE WALL DEPORT THEM ALL,” and of course the fan favorite, “FUCK OFF WE’RE FULL!”
No one can make a better case for electing a Democratic president then having your head pounded with racists and racism, 24/7. Is Trumpism’s death gasp, his own “Helter Skelter?!” Didn’t work for that evil guy, won’t work for Trump.
George Wallace, in 1968, was the last Presidential Candidate to run on a platform of overt racism. Wallace's won 13.53% of the popular vote, and no electoral votes. Wallace conceivably pulled votes from Hubert Humphrey by pealing off young men, and traditional Democratic blue-collar workers, in the North and Midwest.
Trump and the Republicans running on a Wallace like platform could very well peal votes away from themselves. There still are some, somewhere, decent human, Republicans.
It doesn’t feel that way but Trump’s wall will crumble, and he will fall down, hard.
Will racism be the chant that finally brings Humpty Trumpty down?