Trump Thrives on Cruelty

The binding agent between Donald Trump and his backers is the president’s consistent demonstration of cruelty, argues writer Adam Serwer in the latest Atlantic Argument. From the president’s mockery of the disabled New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, to his denigration of Christine Blasey Ford, to his villainizing of undocumented immigrants, it has become clear that Trump galvanizes his base with invectives that target those who are suffering.

“Trump’s fiercest backers enjoy his cruelty towards people they have decided deserve it,” Serwer says in the video. “For them, the cruelty is the point.”
siftbotsays...

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BSRsays...

The first part is something that a person told me over 30 years ago. I was told it comes from witchcraft.

The second line is what I've learned over next 33 years.

The power of love.

Sniper007said:

Is that a quote from something?

Sniper007says...

That's funny. I thought it sounded like something that would come from Christianity, where God = Love. The statement would just say Fear God.

BSRsaid:

The first part is something that a person told me over 30years ago. I was told it comes from witchcraft.

The second line is what I've learned over next 33 years.

The power of love.

BSRsays...

The Bible needs love. Love doesn't need the Bible. If God is love, then call it what it is.

Have you ever lost someone you truly love? If you can survive it, you will be it.

Sniper007said:

That's funny. I thought it sounded like something that would come from Christianity, where God = Love. The statement would just say Fear God.

ForgedRealitysays...

ISIS survives on similar principles. They even have his support. He claims they have been "defeated" so the American people will be okay with leaving them alone. Is he an ISIS plant in addition to a Russian spy? I'm only kind of half-joking about that...

bobknight33says...

Some mocking, just speaking truth with slight comedy.

Trump is knocking down falsehoods that in abundance by the left.

Media is 27/7/365 anti Trump and yet his poll numbers are steady. What would happen if media was at least 50% fair.

MEAGA 2020

newtboysaid:

Elaborate...I dare you.
You can't debate a single claim he made.

BSRsays...


bobknight33said:

Some mocking, just speaking truth with slight comedy.

Trump is knocking down falsehoods that in abundance by the left.

Media is 27/7/365 anti Trump and yet his poll numbers are steady. What would happen if media was at least 50% fair.

MEAGA 2020

newtboysays...

If they were 50% fair it would be worse for Trump, but even two years in they still can't believe everything he says is a lie, so they keep reporting it like it means something besides the ramblings of an Alzheimer's patient.
Even he would say your numbers are wrong, he thinks it's far more than 27/7/365, more like 32/12/427, or even 39/15/720

Poll numbers steady? Well, rock bottom is a stabilizer.

Meaga? Make Everywhere but America Great Again? Are you having a stroke?

bobknight33said:

Some mocking, just speaking truth with slight comedy.

Trump is knocking down falsehoods that in abundance by the left.

Media is 27/7/365 anti Trump and yet his poll numbers are steady. What would happen if media was at least 50% fair.

MEAGA 2020

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