One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other

Has Trump decided that serially attacking the popular governors of all the swing states is his path to victory? First Brian Kemp, now Josh Shapiro?

He already ginned up political violence against Big Gretch in 2020 (he lost the state). Is he going to try that again?

— emptywheel (cheek) (@emptywheel) August 22, 2024

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Except savvy journalists can see right through this double lie and raise the alarm about an attempt to win via means that don't involve voting. https://t.co/kFYOVDGG1m

— emptywheel (cheek) (@emptywheel) August 21, 2024

And what, precisely, would those means be? And how, precisely, would they work? As well as they did in 2020? Magically better because Trump has evil black magic superpowers now? Powers he didn't have as the sitting POTUS?

Yeah, Trump is trying to gin something up.  No, I don't downplay potential violence, or disgregard the real violence of J6.  But being afraid of Trump is like being afraid of a petulant toddler.  At least when he was POTUS, Trump was a toddler with a shotgun.  Now he's just a toddler.  When he's not a ranting old man shouting at clouds.