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It’s to make people think about something positive he’s doing before the election. Sadly, the government was not drawing attention to the problems with China be
by gentleman11 6y ago
It’s to make people think about something positive he’s doing before the election. Sadly, the government was not drawing attention to the problems with China before him. Its one of the few legitimate problems he has been pushing against and will probably get him some votes
- runawaybottle 6y agoI doubt Trump is a psychological master, but bucketing a bunch of issues into the China bucket can help reframe the pandemic. China bad, Uighurs, TikTok, trade deals ... Coronavirus. Trump: I’m not bad, China is. Look at all that stuff in that bucket, need to do something about it, maybe I will, maybe I’m the only one that will. Standard manipulation really. Edit: I’ll add that this tactic is so effective that Biden had no choice but to parrot the rhetoric in the dem debates (said some pretty hard line stuff). Biden/Obama have had a legitimate hard line stance against China with their Asia pivot strategy, but they never used the hard-line rhetoric politically until Trump did. Bill Clinton has similar instincts to Trump. When he campaigned for Hilary in red states, he would straight up say things along the lines of ‘I never thought Obamacare was a good idea’. Trump is in full gear rallying the base, and he’s going to force Biden to mirror some of these views. If he does this successfully, Biden’s attacks on the pandemic handling will constantly be convoluted with the larger China-bad narrative.
- grugagag 6y agoSure, standard manipulation but it might work for Trump's base voters, sadly