‘Nobody Wanted To Touch It’: How Trump’s Racist ‘Squad’ Attacks Rocked Republicans
"Presidential Harassment!", Donald Trump tweeted, at 7:59 AM on Sunday. "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!", he shrieked, seconds later.
A few minutes previous, the president insisted the Washington Post is telling lies about his administration and spinning yarns about how aides and Republican confidants responded after he advised Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley to "go back" to the "crime infested places from which they came" a week ago.
Trump's "go back" tweets
Trump says / does something outrageous. Trump denies it. Trump admits it. Lindsay Graham is all for it.
Trump denies it again, calling it fake noos. Republicans tepidly and conditionally condemn it. Kellyanne Conway leans into it, comparing it to some unrelated thing a Clinton or Obama did. Poll numbers come back saying Republican primary voters adore the outrageous thing, Democrats are outraged, and Independents confused about the football offseason and new MCU timelines. Cabinet officials and White House spokespeople issue contradictory statements. Media get confused. SNL and Daily Show pounce. Trump doubles down. Republicans make the outrageous thing a Party platform. Establishment normalizes thing, then forgets. Rinse, repeat. It will be called the Kavanaugh Cycle.
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Hope everyone had the chance to enjoy a rare interview with the man behind the curtain on Fox this morning. Steven Miller at his worst or best, depending on your world view.
There is nothing good about Steven Miller . A millennial Goebbels for our messed-up times.