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Of Course Trump’s Hail Mary Is to Attack the Squad
When backed into a corner, the president taps his worst impulses
Donald Trump is panicking. We can tell by his tweets, which grow somehow more unhinged (and randomly capitalized) by the day. We know he’s worried by his desperate attempts to make a Hunter Biden scandal happen, despite the absence of evidence or mainstream interest. But most of all, we can tell that the president is deeply unnerved by his recent attacks on the “squad” of Democratic congresswomen of color.
Because when Trump feels backed into a corner, he retreats immediately to misogynist and racist attacks.
Trump has long been attacking vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, claiming that the California senator is a radical leftist. (She is not.) The president has also suggested that Harris would assume the presidency from Biden and warned against having a “female socialist president.” But the slings at Sen. Harris aren’t sticking — especially the lie that she is some kind of secret revolutionary. That’s why Trump has turned his attention to “the squad”: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib.
At a Minnesota rally last week, for example, the president attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar…
