Trump Goes All In on Fear and Loathing. Will Voters?
The existential question is whether Trump’s emphasis on performance art and anarchy at the expense of democracy, nation-building, decency, security and prosperity will work again.
Trump doubles down on malice.
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At a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, Donald Trump speculated about the size of golf legend Arnold Palmer’s penis, described Kamala Harris as a “shit vice president,” sowed doubt about voting integrity and said he was exasperated with “woke” military officers disinclined to help him incarcerate or deport political dissidents and noncitizens.
Some portion of this catalog of obscenities and grievances, a Trump spokesman said, was an approximation of the Republican presidential candidate’s closing arguments to voters before Election Day on Nov. 5.