{"id":89225,"date":"2019-07-31T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89225"},"modified":"2019-07-30T17:27:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T21:27:08","slug":"trumps-elijah-cummings-tweets-setting-stage-for-presidential-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89225","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Elijah Cummings Tweets Setting Stage for Presidential Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump as “The Storm”. (r\/The_Donald)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

President Trump succeeded in stirring debate and condemnation with his tweets against some in Congress. This time, slamming Representative Elijah Cummings. His hammering “The Squad”, and then Elijah Cummings, are connected and are a part of a long term strategy.<\/p>\n

When he hammered the squad, much focus was placed on the first sentence of his tweet series. President Trump’s mode of operation, with regards to his tweets, deliberately uses errors to get a bigger message across… Via a focus on those errors and on assumptions made about those errors.<\/p>\n

His tweets spread, accompanied by frothing at the mouth over the assumptions, without much opposition to the actual message.<\/p>\n

One purpose of the original three tweets was to get the “moderate” Democrats to close ranks with the radicals. The tweets also did something else. The second sentence, in the three tweets against the squad, spelled out what he was actually saying:<\/p>\n

“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough.” -@realDonaldTrump<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It is a common argument, from conservatives, that areas that have voted Democrat for generations tend to be crime-infested. They’re also broken, given the local and state government’s inability, or refusal, to fix growing problems.<\/p>\n

In addition to crime infestation, they also suffer from building and infrastructure deterioration.<\/p>\n

Another example used in this argument involves “gun control”. Democrat-controlled areas generally have stronger gun control laws. These appear to be associated with higher crime rates involving weapons.<\/p>\n

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The swamp is uniting against President Trump instead of uniting to support Americans. (r\/The_Donald)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Herein lies another message that President Trump got across with his attacks on the squad. They represented districts that are basically “in the toilet”, and they are attempting to argue how the federal government should do things in general.<\/p>\n

President Trump, in another series of tweets, drove that point home:<\/p>\n

@realDonaldTrump<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA……<\/p>\n

….As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Naturally, the left accused him of racism, and the Democratic Party closed ranks with Representative Elijah Cummings. In the process of this happening, President Trump accomplished another objective.<\/p>\n

He shined a light on the crime-infested places that Democrats have represented for decades. With Democrats closing ranks with Representative Elijah Cummings, they ended up “owning” their failures in their districts.<\/p>\n

Together with the tweets against the squad, we have two main messages:<\/p>\n

1. The Democratic Party has shifted well to the left. They demonstrated this with their closing ranks with “the squad”.<\/p>\n

2. The Democratic Party has shown that they care more about power than they do about the people that they represent. Hence, the crime-infested decaying places in areas Democrats represent.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Party now owns both radical leftism and the fact that the places that voted for them for generations are crappy places. The people in these areas have complained about their representatives not doing anything for them.<\/p>\n

Enter President Trump, highlighting their same complaints. After decades of their Democrat representatives not listening to them, President Trump spoke on their behalf.<\/p>\n

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President Trump doesn’t need glasses. He has 2020. (r\/The_Donald)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

President Trump appears to be setting the stage in his favor. He is doing this while the Democrats are still working on who they would nominate.<\/p>\n

President Trump is already defining the competing arguments for next year’s presidential campaign… Whether the media, those on the left, and the Democrats like it or not.<\/p>\n

He has a nice head start.<\/p>\n

His tweets against Representative Cummings is also him striking deep into blue counties and into blue states. He is taking the fight to the Democrat’s home turf and forcing them into the defensive. This is before the Democrats could rally, strongly, behind a single candidate.<\/p>\n

As he did with the previous tweets, he highlighted another goal:<\/p>\n

“Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!” – @realDonaldTrump<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

One of the campaign statements that President Trump made, in 2016, was a promise to drain the swamp. He is slowly, but surely, working toward that end. However, the swamp extends beyond Washington DC.<\/p>\n

What if an investigation discovers that some of the federal grants money was stolen or was not used as intended? The door is open to investigating those trusted to manage and disburse this money. This includes those that work for both the state and local governments.<\/p>\n

These federal grants become a Trojan horse that could be used to start draining the swamp at the state and local levels in addition to the federal level.<\/p>\n

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They weren’t protesting the conditions in their districts. They had issues with something else. (r\/The_Donald)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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