Pivoting and Re-Pivoting Towards Trump's Hatred

Donald Trump will include his enemies in shared attacks against other enemies.  Everyone is Donald Trump's enemy at some point or another, his supporters included.  Many of them do not realize this.  When he attacks China, he does everything possible to ensure Democrats are with him.  When he attacks European imports, he does everything possible to ensure the entirety of the blue collar domestic manufacturing workers are with him.  When he attacks immigrants, he does everything possible to ensure that minorities amongst the citizenry are with him.  He wants you to forget that at any moment he could decide to pivot to attacking a group which you make up.  You are a part of some group.  Some group he doesn't like.  Some group he despises for something.  He will eventually work his way around to attacking that group publicly and you will be forced into silence, shocked by what you are hearing and perhaps even in denial about it.  You may at first apologize for him for attacking you.  "He didn't really mean it", you think to yourself.  You have been trained to want to love him, because that's what one does at his rallies.  He will love you back if you love him, you tell yourself, and that's what you want and need.  It is always temporary and always based around how he can paint a more perfect image of himself as the idol of humanity's dreams.  You, the Trump rally attendee, will eventually begin to wonder what you have done.  Will it be the next time Trump attacks a woman and the ensuing argument between him and that woman inspires him to attack the entire gender?  Perhaps with some comment about "blood coming out of her...wherever".  Will it be the next time Trump attacks athletes who speak out in protest and the argument inspires him to label them "sons of bitches"?  He claims to do this in defense of the flag, but he has attacked so many of our soldiers, veterans and law enforcement officials who defend it.  You are not free from attack by Trump.  Not if you shake his hand, not if you tell him you have loved him for 20 years as a fan of his television show and not if you tell him how much you love some policy of his or even all of his policies.  The time will come when it is to his advantage to include you in a group that he needs to attack in order to prove his greatness.  When you become advantageous to demean, he will forget any shared bond which either of you may have felt at some point in time.  Your loyalty to him will go unrewarded.  Tim Cook found a way to exclude Apple products from tariffs and he may have thought he had endeared himself to Trump.  Now, we know the FTC is reviewing all past company acquisitions of Apple and other large companies in Trump's quest to attack big tech companies for not being favorable enough towards him as a candidate.


Just before the midterm elections of 2018, Chris Cuomo told us what Trump was doing to maintain enough support to continue.  He was using a common enemy to motivate his supporters.  

The common enemy is always changing.  It may be "deep state" today if some part of the government has found new illegal activity in one of Trump's businesses or family members.  You, the Trump supporter, will cheer his criticisms of your government.  This government which has evolved over nearly 250 years and grown increasingly more specialized to deal with increasingly complex problems in an increasingly complex world.  Trump is not only removing these specialized abilities that we have developed over time to deal with our problems, but he is removing even the less specialized and more basic, primitive capabilities that we expect to allow us to survive.  You cheer his criticisms of deep state, but you drink water with chemicals that were just invented a few years ago and were banned under EPA regulations, but now are permitted again.  You may not suffer the consequences of having these new chemicals in your body, but at some point in the future, your offspring will be affected.  Our laws, our system of government and all the protections that it has afforded us from people and things that could cause us harm, it is all disintegrating as you cheer.  It is popular now to promote voting rights for formerly incarcerated people and Trump will claim them as his loyal followers, which they may accept and be swayed into this implicit adoption of their minds and beliefs from the person who they view as having given them this right.  They too will be attacked by him when the time comes for him to defend himself.  Our veterans who have protected us in the armed forces have been criticized by Trump for every imaginable detail that Trump can find.  We've seen that a soldier can be criticized for having been captured and taken prisoner by a hostile country, as in the case of John McCain, whose family tree had a long and distinguished history of military service.  We've seen that even when Trump agrees with something that has happened, he has found that he can still make himself better than that thing and all who were a part of it by saying that it should have happened sooner and faster.  So, when you are on the same side as Trump he will tell you that you will never be able to do something as good as he can.  You will have to suffer small criticisms when they come and be thankful that they are not larger criticisms.  You, the Trump supporter may not realize that you too are afraid of him. You too are afraid of being attacked by him.  You may tell yourself that this fear isn't why you support him, but you're not completely sure how true this conviction is.  You are allowed to cheer in support of him until you don't look as enthusiastic as you should and then you are demonized.  You will cheer louder and wilder than anyone else to avoid being demonized.  Do you remember seeing how an attendee at a Trump rally was removed from his seat behind the president?  You may want to forget, but it did happen.

You, the Trump supporter know this can happen to you at any moment.  Why do you support this?  We are all Americans, both Democrats and Republicans.  We all want a strong and prosperous nation.  We all need to be friends.  Don't buy into Trump's hatred.  You are not immune to becoming a target of his hatred and it does not benefit you in the long run to continue supporting him.  America can't be something that people are coerced into believing in, like at a Trump rally.  Let's get back to normal.

Recently, a lawyer in the Department of Justice was nominated to another position by Donald Trump.  This nomination was withdrawn when the lawyer removed himself from the case against Roger Stone because Trump's attorney general overruled the sentencing recommendation.  The attorney was smart enough to know that the attorney general overruled his sentencing recommendation in order to protect a Trump associate who remained silent instead of testifying against Trump.  The original sentencing recommendation was based on Department of Justice guidelines that have been in place for a long time.

Roger Stone is safe until Roger Stone does something that Trump doesn't like and then he will be made to suffer by Trump.  Same as you and me.  Fail to cheer for Trump and you will be removed.  Fail to protect Trump and you will be attacked and Trump will suggest that some people might want to kill you.  Someone like Cesar Sayok will obey, as Trump knows.

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