That photo is a greater signal of doom than the rally itself. His mopey, sweaty face, the MAGA hat crunched up in his fist – it is a perfect picture of defeat. But the red tie, undone, is the worst of the symbols. It appears to be a metaphor, for all of what is happening. And just as I have never seen a half empty Trump rally, I have never seen a photo of Trump with his tie undone. This may actually be the only such photo, going all the way back to his early business days.
The man looks entirely defeated. It’s as if he has already lost. Possibly, that is what has happened. He failed on coronavirus entirely, but a much bigger failure has been his capitulation to this black revolution. Remember that he rescheduled this rally in the name of Juneteenth as a signal that he loves black violence and honors the black revolution.
I think that is likely what was and is going on – Trump thinks that blacks will vote for him if he doesn’t question their revolution. But it’s just… it’s impossible to process how anyone could believe this made any sense. Although I think this is ultimately the only explanation for what is going on, I’m really struggling with accepting it.
There is no Republican black wave. The suggestion is lunacy. The Washington Post has a piece up this week analyzing black support for Trump, with all of the polls collected, showing that Trump at best is going to get 8% of the black vote, which is what he got in 2016. This is about the percentage of blacks who you would expect to vote for any Republican, as it is the percentage of blacks that have money and act like normal people. The other 92% of blacks are criminals and otherwise abusers of the white system of social services. The blacks who will vote for him are going to vote for him specifically because he doesn’t tolerate black riots and revolution. That is to say, what he is doing by refusing to address the black revolution is going to make it less likely that the blacks who do support him are going to bother voting.
More importantly, it is going to make it very much less likely that the working and middle class whites who make up his core base are going to bother voting. Trump was able to do nothing for 3 years, and still be forgiven by the people, but as Tucker says in the above clip from the height of the biggest riots America has ever seen, people will not forgive weakness. That is what everyone reads his refusal to address the revolution as: weakness.
The staggering thing is that this is a self-inflicted wound. Maybe he can’t do anything. The military refused to defend the White House during peak riot, so it is unlikely he can really do much on that front. Maybe he can’t get AG Barr to prosecute the rioters. Maybe there is literally nothing he can do to stop any of it. But what he can do is what we know he can do, which is tweet and go on shows talking about it. He could be out there every single day denouncing the blacks, and calling this a hoax, saying it doesn’t really have anything to do with black people and that it’s just a communist revolution using the dumb criminal blacks as a tool.
He was very loudly talking about “socialism” as a threat to “capitalism” throughout 2019, apparently as an election strategy. But now we have a full-on Bolshevik revolution, a direct attack on the very foundations of our entire civilization, and he’s doing what? He’s saying he’s going to reform the police and he’s honoring Juneteenth.