Monday, March 18, 2024

Did Donald Trump Threaten 'Bloodbath' If He Loses? Here's What Happened

 https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-threaten-bloodbath-speech-context-auto-industry-true-biden-1880300

George Conway, an attorney and Trump critic, argued on social media that whether or not Trump was referring to the auto industry, what matters was his consistent use of "apocalyptic and violent language in an indiscriminate fashion as a result of his psychopathy and correlative authoritarian tendencies."

"It's a classic trait and technique of authoritarian demagogues," he said. "He catastrophizes *everything* to rile up his cultish supporters, and to bind them to him, and to make them willing to do his bidding."

3 comments:

  1. I watched the speech. He noted that China is building auto plants in Mexico and planning to flood the US with cheap cars and destroy the US auto industry. He then promised that, if elected, he'd put a 100% tarriff on those cars. If he didn't get elected, it would be a bloodbath for the US auto industry.
    Quite cogent actually.

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    1. As noted by many other observers his comments are unclear and it is not obvious he was referring to auto industry and not the whole country

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    2. Having watching the video, it's obvious.

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