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As his favorability among Americans continues to plummet to historic lows<\/u>, President Donald Trump has recently pivoted to a new messaging strategy \u2013 a strategy he\u2019s become \u201cobsessed\u201d with, argued<\/u> columnist Jamelle Bouie on Wednesday, though one that\u2019s \u201ccertain to fail.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Following the recent electoral victories<\/u> of several progressive candidates in Democratic primary elections, Trump has increasingly spoken out against \u201ccommunism,\u201d and to such an extent that analysts suspect it to be a \u201cdesperate<\/u>\u201d attempt to shift the odds in Republicans\u2019 favor ahead of the midterms.<\/p>\n

The problem, Bouie argued, is that Trump\u2019s attempt to “resurrect the fear\u201d of communism that reached its height in the United States during the Cold War was a \u201ctotal abstraction\u201d to today\u2019s voters.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmericans are neither as hostile<\/u> to socialism as they once were nor as positive toward capitalism as they have been in the past. More important than polling, however, is the fact that for many Americans the \u2018communist threat\u2019 is a total abstraction,\u201d Bouie wrote in an op-ed<\/u> published Wednesday. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThere are tens of millions of voters (this columnist included) who were young children when the Soviet Union fell. There are millions more who weren\u2019t yet born. For these Americans, \u2018communism\u2019 is as much a concern as \u2018the missile gap\u2019 or the Contras<\/u>. It is completely unresponsive to the circumstances of their lives \u2014 to their struggles with housing, health care and the overall cost of living.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreover, threats of \u201ccommunism\u201d taking hold in the United States were \u201cout of touch with reality,\u201d Bouie argued, and were actually \u201cmore likely to drive voters away from Trump and the Republican Party.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president\u2019s attempt to drum up a third Red Scare is certain to fail,\u201d Bouie wrote. \u201cIf it matters \u2013 if it is interesting \u2013 it is only because it gives us a glimpse into the stunted imagination of a man who seems to value only the worst this country has to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As his favorability among Americans continues to plummet to historic lows, President Donald Trump has recently pivoted to a new messaging strategy \u2013 a strategy he\u2019s become \u201cobsessed\u201d with, argued columnist Jamelle Bouie on Wednesday, though one that\u2019s \u201ccertain to fail.\u201dFollowing the recent electoral…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nTrump hedges midterms on 'total abstraction' that\u2019s 'certain to fail': columnist - Property Relocation USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=4686\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump hedges midterms on 'total abstraction' that\u2019s 'certain to fail': columnist - 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