"These Aren't My Voters"

NEW: “These aren’t my voters.” Trump dismisses protesters as aides push for harsh tactics. By @carolelee @ckubeNBC @albamonica @kwelkernbc https://t.co/KtqXFycitC

— Dafna Linzer (@DafnaLinzer) June 12, 2020

Neither are these, I guess.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is floating a theory that travel from Mexico may be contributing to a new wave of coronavirus infections, rather than states’ efforts to reopen their economies. https://t.co/zpemRUMUpo

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) June 12, 2020

“It looks like he’s bewildered right now,” one political adviser said of the president. “We’re losing the culture war because we won’t engage directly, because we’re so scared to be called racist.”

This adviser said the president and his allies should be taking on the Black Lives Matter movement by calling it a “front organization for a lot of crazy leftist ideas that are unpopular.” But another political ally said the opposite — that the president appears to be “spinning wheels” because he’s not setting the agenda on policing and race in the U.S. when he “should be leading on these issues” by taking steps like banning tactics like chokeholds.

Trump has suggested he might support a limit on chokeholds, saying “I don't like chokeholds” in an interview with Fox News that aired Friday.

Yeah, he eventually said that; but not before he said:

Trump on Fox: "I think the concept of chokehold sounds so innocent, so perfect."

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 12, 2020

Which one did he mean?

And Trump isn't losing the culture wars because he's afraid of being called a racist.  We already know he's a racist; that's why he's losing the culture wars.

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