Trump World and the Beaver<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\nBut aspirational goals need to have a counter-point, a \u201cb\u00eate noire\u201d (black beast) of evil that is the ultimate result of failure. The Trump campaign chose carefully: while it could have been President Obama, those racial overtones might have been too much even for Trump\u2019s organization. Instead, it was \u201cCrooked Hillary\u201d and \u201cLock her Up\u201d that became the battle cry of Trump rallies and advertisements.<\/p>\n
Like it or not, attacking Hillary resonated with a lot of Americans. Add that to the amplification provided by the Russians, and the inherent misogyny against a woman candidate, and it worked. \u00a0But campaigning is different than governing, or at least, it used to be. So why does the Trump machine continue its attack on Clinton, constantly referencing her in the same bitter terms they used during the campaign?<\/p>\n
The Trump Presidency is a personal one: it\u2019s all about what the President does. This week\u2019s example, the tweet storm over LeVar Ball\u2019s comments (basketball player father, not LeVar Burton of Roots, Star Trek and Reading Rainbow fame.) \u00a0Trump demanded fealty for his personal intervention to free the UCLA basketball team shoplifters, when father Ball refused, Trump attacked.<\/p>\n
This personal, quasi-authoritarian Presidency means that all of the success, and more notably, all of the failures are Trump\u2019s alone. In order to distract and excuse from these failures, Trump requires a \u201cb\u00eate noire.\u201d Hillary continues to fit the bill, and is rising to take the bait, as her visibility increases with her current book tour. It\u2019s not that she\u2019s wrong to tour, or that she shouldn\u2019t be saying what she sees as the truth; it\u2019s that it does play into Trump\u2019s need for someone to attack.<\/p>\n
This is similar to Turkish President Recip Erdogan\u2019s use of Fethullah Gulen. Erdogan is in the process of ending democracy in Turkey, he needs an outside attacker to make his \u201cemergency procedures\u201d seem necessary. Gulen, safely ensconced in rural Pennsylvania, is perfect. Erdogan blames every attempt to maintain democracy in Turkey as subversion by \u201cGulenists,\u201d and has even gone so far as to try to subvert the US government to get Gulen out. In reality, Gulen in the US is probably better for Erdogan than getting to actually put him on trial in Turkey. He can blame him from the outside, instead of actually having control.<\/p>\n
Look for Trump to go even farther in attacking Clinton in the next several weeks, as the walls continue to crack in the Russiagate investigations. Last night it was announced that General Flynn\u2019s lawyers will no longer cooperate with Trump\u2019s attorneys. This can only mean that they are seeking to cooperate with the Mueller team, in order to gain some leniency for Flynn or his son. Flynn is the most likely candidate to deliver information on the family circle of the Trump campaign, Jared, Don Jr, or the Donald himself. There will be more to come.<\/p>\n
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