Yep I also would love to see Tim Scott and Nikki Haley both get blasted for their support of BLM.
Nikki Haley was dumb enough to run for President and somehow still not delete her stupid virtue signalling tweet signifying support for Bubba Wallace during the noose hoax.
Tim Scott is cringe and supports BLM but he is nowhere near as malicious or as much of a neocon as Nikki.
Haley needs to be humiliated so much that she starts to regret even running for POTUS in the first place.
My hypothesis is that how DeSantis will respond to this BLM issue will eventually decide Trump's response.
If DeSantis makes a strong argument against BLM ideology, I would not be surprised to see Trump take the opposite position just out of reflexive spite.
For some damn reason, Trump has decided to take the opposite position to DeSantis on various things recently.
Whether it be supporting abortion restrictions, the fight against Disney's influence in Florida, the Budweiser boycott over trans ideology or just admitting COVID lockdowns were a mistake, Trump has decided to take the complete opposite position as a contrast to DeSantis.
I don't think running in the GOP primaries with these positions helps Trump at all.
In 2016 primaries, it was a great move for Trump to take the counter position against GOP orthodoxy with regards to free trade, entitlement cuts and the Iraq War. Trumps positions then appealed both to the GOP base and the general electorate.
This time around Trump is dangerously taking an outright left wing position on fighting woke companies, past COVID response and abortion restrictions.
The GOP base hates woke corporations, hates COVID restrictions and is pro-life.
Trump's current positions on these issues are toxic to the GOP base and they won't help Trump in the general electorate either because we know by now that any position taken by Trump is demonized by the majority of the general electorate thanks to their personal disdain for him.
Yep but I doubt anyone on that debate stage is going to attack her on this.
Trump won't do it.
Scott won't do it.
Pence won't do it.
DeSantis probably won't do it but there is a very small chance he goes there.
Confederate statues are a key part of South Carolina history and should be preserved for solely that reason but the mainstream media always twists any defense of Confederate statues as pro-slavery.
Every Republican candidate will likely want to stay clear of voluntarily walking into this minefield.
Yep I also would love to see Tim Scott and Nikki Haley both get blasted for their support of BLM.
Nikki Haley was dumb enough to run for President and somehow still not delete her stupid virtue signalling tweet signifying support for Bubba Wallace during the noose hoax.
Tim Scott is cringe and supports BLM but he is nowhere near as malicious or as much of a neocon as Nikki.
Haley needs to be humiliated so much that she starts to regret even running for POTUS in the first place.
Yep, and it will test Trump and DeSantis on the issue as well, to gauge their commitment to opposing it.
I think 2024 primaries will be very interesting.
My hypothesis is that how DeSantis will respond to this BLM issue will eventually decide Trump's response.
If DeSantis makes a strong argument against BLM ideology, I would not be surprised to see Trump take the opposite position just out of reflexive spite.
For some damn reason, Trump has decided to take the opposite position to DeSantis on various things recently.
Whether it be supporting abortion restrictions, the fight against Disney's influence in Florida, the Budweiser boycott over trans ideology or just admitting COVID lockdowns were a mistake, Trump has decided to take the complete opposite position as a contrast to DeSantis.
I don't think running in the GOP primaries with these positions helps Trump at all.
In 2016 primaries, it was a great move for Trump to take the counter position against GOP orthodoxy with regards to free trade, entitlement cuts and the Iraq War. Trumps positions then appealed both to the GOP base and the general electorate.
This time around Trump is dangerously taking an outright left wing position on fighting woke companies, past COVID response and abortion restrictions.
The GOP base hates woke corporations, hates COVID restrictions and is pro-life.
Trump's current positions on these issues are toxic to the GOP base and they won't help Trump in the general electorate either because we know by now that any position taken by Trump is demonized by the majority of the general electorate thanks to their personal disdain for him.
They were pro BLM? I felt they didn’t condemn them enough and tried to straddle the fence
Nikki Haley went full pro BLM during the George Floyd incident and the Bubba Wallace noose hoax.
Tim Scott straddled the fence but he helped push terrible legislation like the First Step Act through the Senate in 2018.
Trump's hiring of Brooke Rollins was just a disaster. Rollins is responsible for that downright woke bill that has increased the general crime rate.
Haley took down Confederate Statues.
Yep but I doubt anyone on that debate stage is going to attack her on this.
Trump won't do it. Scott won't do it. Pence won't do it. DeSantis probably won't do it but there is a very small chance he goes there.
Confederate statues are a key part of South Carolina history and should be preserved for solely that reason but the mainstream media always twists any defense of Confederate statues as pro-slavery.
Every Republican candidate will likely want to stay clear of voluntarily walking into this minefield.