Donald Trump: – This is how he creates chaos

Soon There have been three horrific and divisive acts of violence in the United States.

The first was on August 23, when 29-year-old Jacob Blake, a black resident of Kenosha, Wisconsin, was shot four times in the back by a police officer who tried to arrest him. Blake is in the hospital and is paralyzed from the waist down, possibly permanently. The incident became a spark that ignited new demonstrations against police violence in the United States, and especially in Kenosha, where some of the demonstrations degenerated into looting and vandalism.

Two days later He dragged 17-year-old Trump supporter Kyle Rittenhouse to Kenosha, armed with an AR-15 rifle. He shot and killed two unarmed protesters; one of them had thrown a plastic bag at him and the other tried to take the gun from him after the first murder.

Supporters of the protesters call Rittenhouse a terrorist, while the right wing and Trump supporters refer to him as a hero. Several conservative groups have started raising funds to give you a good defense in court. Far-right anchor Tucker Carlson on Fox News has stated that there is no reason to be surprised that 17-year-olds take it upon themselves to maintain law and order when adults cannot; a statement that many see as a call for civil violence.

The president himself has said that Rittenhouse “could have been assassinated” had he not defended himself. He didn’t want to meet Jacob Blake’s family.

And then on August 30, A Trump supporter was shot and killed while he and several like-minded people were driving through Portland, Oregon. Portland has been the scene of major protests in recent months and the president has repeatedly singled out it as a lawless city where the Democratic leadership has lost control. Overall, a civil war-like state is brewing in which the long-fierce verbal struggle between the fronts of American politics is beginning to turn more and more into a physical struggle.

This is how it happens a paradox: there is no doubt that it is the president and his followers who have escalated the violence, with his violent and warlike rhetoric and his depiction of American cities as chaotic nests where mobs can freely devastate. Of course, it is the president who benefits from the aggravated situation we find ourselves in now. Opinion polls show that potential voters still believe Trump is in a better position to uphold law and order than his rival Joe Biden.

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Those of the protesters who has resorted to violence, has given Trump a gift package with a bow: now he can present himself as the only one with enough cash to quell the riots, where the Democrats want to let the criminals loot. The fact that Joe Biden is one of the two who has unequivocally condemned violence on both sides doesn’t help much when the whole fight takes place on the home field of Trump and the Republicans. If Democrats want to fight back, they must go on the offensive in the debate as soon as possible, while also pointing out that people who demonstrate peacefully against police violence are only using their democratic rights. It’s a demanding task in a situation where the space for nuances is small and shrinks quickly.

It’s hard imagine that this could have gone so far if it had not been for the fact that political discourse develops to such an extent in closed circles, where the other party is not the other party, but the enemy, and where all the media are, therefore, allowed. While approaches to such thinking exist on both sides of the political spectrum, it is probably the case that right here, right now, it is the right-wing in the United States and other countries that is going the furthest, and in that way moving towards it. authoritarian.

It is well known that leaders who want to summon absolute and undemocratic powers must first demonize the independent institutions of society that must keep those in power under control: the press, academia, the courts. The press and universities in particular have been demonized from the right in Trump’s America. The method is to distrust professionalism, distrust competition and turn everything into a power struggle and partisan submissions: if someone criticizes me it is because they love me, and therefore also my voters, for life.

Joe Biden leads still at the polls before the November US elections. But recently, Kevin Roose of the New York Times wrote about what he had discovered after monitoring traffic on Facebook. The pages and posts that garner the most engagement are overwhelmingly conservative. In the story these pages tell, the protesters in Kenosha and Portland are little more than dangerous thugs, and the most shared updates on Black Lives Matter portray the movement as one big lie. Roose also notes that conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has more exchanges on his Facebook page in a month than the main pages of established outlets like the New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, ABC News, and NBC News combined.

This is how the situation can be It occurs where the terrorist of one side is the hero of the other side, and where there is little chance that they will ever agree on what exactly has happened in the devastated Kenosha.