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The Apprentice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a reason that The Apprentice, <\/em>Donald Trump\u2019s successful reality television show, ran for fourteen seasons.  He found a formula that worked, and he repeated it over and over again.  There\u2019s nothing wrong with that, it how success usually works in America.  And when the show started to get a little stale, The Celebrity Apprentice <\/em>was mixed in.  New, known faces were battling for the \u201cright\u201d to hear the famous line, \u201cYou\u2019re Fired!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we shouldn\u2019t be surprised that the Trump 2020 Campaign is using the 2016 playbook to try to win victory.  In 2016 they achieved an improbable win; for those poker players out there they drew to an \u201cinside straight\u201d.  They lost the popular vote by millions of votes, but were able to squeak out a narrow victory in the Electoral College.  We all know the \u201cmantra:\u201d Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, and the Trump margins:  Wisconsin 22,748, Michigan 10,704, and Pennsylvania 44,292.  It takes 270 votes to win the Electoral College, Trump earned 278 to Clinton\u2019s 260.  I wrote about these figures in one of the first essays here on Trump World, 77744<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gy-Nah<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Peter Navarro is President Trump\u2019s chief economic advisor.  Navarro has been an \u201coutlier\u201d in American economic thinkers for years, favoring an isolationist and protectionist view reminiscent of 1920\u2019s thought.  He wrote a book in 2011, Death by China, <\/em>which endeared him to the Trump Campaign.  We all remember the 2016 campaign, and Trump\u2019s continual attacks on China (he pronounced it GY-NAH rhyming with VAGINA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main strategies of Trump 2020 is to change the conversation.  COVID-19 is not a winning argument for them, the growing death total, nearing 100,000 is unsupportable.  So in typical American political fashion, it\u2019s time to pivot, to change the subject from something Trump can do little about, the virus, to somewhere where he feels he has better credentials, the economy.  So it was no surprise that Peter Navarro was the main spokesman for the Administration this weekend.  He appeared on several of the major news shows on Sunday, including This Week with George Stephanopoulos <\/em>and Meet the Press.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He spent a lot of interview time dodging questions about the Administration\u2019s response to the crisis.  \u201cI don\u2019t have time to look in the rear-view mirror\u201d was a typical response to questions about past actions.  And in answering questions about whistleblower Dr. Richard Bright\u2019s accusations of Administration neglect of the impending crisis in January and February, Navarro essentially accused the doctor of \u201cdesertion under fire\u201d by refusing to accept a demotion and transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Political Equation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Navarro\u2019s message on the virus was clear.  It wasn\u2019t the President\u2019s fault:  the Centers for Disease Control screwed up the tests at the beginning, and besides, it\u2019s no longer COVID-19 or even the Corona-Virus.  No, Navarro has a new name for our current plague:  THE CHINA VIRUS.  Navarro intoned that they started it, lost control of it, and maybe (underscore probably), attacked us with it.  This is step one in Trump 2020\u2019s move to shift blame away from the Administration, and onto someone, anyone else.  And Navarro is the perfect anti-China guy to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So step one:  it\u2019s China\u2019s fault.  Step two is to link Trump\u2019s opponent, Joe Biden, to China.  And it\u2019s not enough to just claim, true or not, that Biden through his Vice Presidency with the Obama Administration, was \u201csoft\u201d on China.  Navarro tried to make a stronger connection, falling back to the ongoing falsehood that Joe\u2019s son, Hunter, made billions of dollars in what must have been illicit deals in China.  The equation they are reaching for:  it\u2019s China\u2019s virus, Biden liked China, his son made money in China:  Biden equals China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obamagate<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Navarro wasn\u2019t done though.  He went on to put forth the newest Trump 2020 strategy:  that in the weeks between the November 2016 election and January 2017 inauguration, the Obama Administration tried to plant the seeds of Trump\u2019s destruction.  They hypothesize that it was Obama, and of course Biden, who encouraged the Russia investigation by the FBI (even though it was opened in August, far before the election). As their \u201cproof\u201d they are using the supposed \u201cperjury trap\u201d of then National Security Advisor Michael Flynn by FBI agents.  Flynn admittedly lied to the agents about his conversations with Russian Ambassador Kislyak, but now Trump\u2019s Attorney General Bill Barr is trying to drop the charges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump 2020 has a new \u201ccatch-phrase\u201d, Obamagate.  But it\u2019s not the former President they\u2019re after, it\u2019s the former Vice President, Joe Biden.  The Trump campaign is trying to put Biden in the same position Hillary Clinton was with her emails.  They are \u201cpainting\u201d Biden as corrupt, lowering him to their own standards of behavior.  Then, like they did in 2016, they can say that there is no moral difference between Trump and Biden.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They can even use their favorite chant at the rallies:  \u201cLock Him Up!!!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Apprentice There\u2019s a reason that The Apprentice, Donald Trump\u2019s successful reality television show, ran for fourteen seasons.  He found a formula that worked, and he repeated it over and over again.  There\u2019s nothing wrong with that, it how success usually works in America.  And when the show started to get a little stale, The Celebrity Apprentice was mixed in.  New, known faces … Continue reading “Lock Him Up”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nLock Him Up : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How can the Trump Campaign "thread the needle" of electoral victory in November? 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