A variety of polling, interviews by pollsters via focus groups of Trump supporters has a repeating theme: They want a strong leader and Trump is it. Leading us to what and where? The question the rest of us should be asking is not to argue he has demagogic entertaining oratorical and leadership skills, he has them, but to ask where do they want Trump to take America? This is the essence of the race for the White House in November. The contrast could not be starker.
Biden may be an oldie, but a goodie who got and gets helpful stuff done for people, from fixing long-neglected crumbling infrastructure, manufacturing sector restoration and job creation, lowering drug costs, and revitalizing alliances and leadership in the Western world. . Trump is an oldie but scary and even scarier because he is a strong leader who only wants to destroy things, not fix them. His vision of where he wants to lead this country is down a dark alley: suppression and persecution of those who oppose his power, a country roiling in internal conflict as once rights and protections they had are taken away, a country vulnerable to those who see us weak and vulnerable as it retreats to America First, believing capitulation to another country's interests is the way to security, and one whose power relies on support from those who feel and fear they are losers and victims, and many who hate and oppose others unlike them in race and religion.
He offers nothing to solve problems of most Americans have in the day to day lives. His party has no planks on issues. Even planks he once relied on are shifting beneath his feet as more feel the economy is improving. His anti-immigrant forever mantra has gotten nowhere even after his first term. In fact, it is backfiring as an appeal to the anti-immigrant crowd. Biden has called his bluff by exposing Trump's strategy to exploit the "crisis" as a campaign tactic instead of fixing a problem.
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