'It's just a game': why Trump needs racist tweets

In American politics for several days raging scandal surrounding the president's statement Donald Trump addressed four female politicians who were officially racist by the US Congress.

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Commentators are almost unanimous in the opinion that Trump deliberately inflates the scandal with an eye to the elections, but disagree on the question of whether he really is racist.

Trump tweeted on Sunday proposed four of his political opponents, young members of the US Congress from the Democratic Party - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib - to leave for “their countries” because, according to Trump, they hate the United States.

Moreover, all four are, naturally, US citizens, although they came from different immigrant communities, and only one of them, Ilhan Omar, was not born in the US, but was brought as a child from Somalia.

"He's not racist, it's just a game"

Most commentators believe that Trump, having initiated the scandal and clearly does not want to extinguish it, has a far-reaching goal - to discredit the Democratic Party in order to be re-elected at the end of next year for a second term. If the elections were held now, Trump, judging by the polls, would lose.

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This was said on Tuesday in the BBC radio, referring to many years of experience in dealing with Trump-businessman, the former director of communications for the Trump-President administration, Anthony Scaramucci.

“He's trying to label the Democratic Party, push it as far to the left as possible, because he's smart, he understands that the left-wing, socialist elements in the Democratic Party are unacceptable to most Americans. Therefore, if the Democrats go towards the left, he will win easily, but if they remain moderate, the fight will be more equal,” Scaramucci said.

All four people involved in the scandal are not only ardent opponents of Trump, but also representatives of the left wing of the Democratic Party: they advocate raising the minimum wage, for free healthcare, against Trump’s anti-immigrant policies, and criticize Israel (Rashida Tlaib is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants).

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“Not only will he survive (censure from the US Congress), he seeks to prolong and intensify this quarrel so that it will set the framework for the presidential election next year, and his goal, I think, from the very beginning has been this: to force the Democrats to support these four women, members of Congress, who belong to the left wing of the party and whom Trump is trying to present as the face of the current Democratic Party - radical, leftist, socialist, as he says, ”says Nick Bryant, a correspondent for the BBC in Washington.

Trump himself assured this week, again via Twitter, that there is “not a single racist bone in him.”

Just mobilizing your

Other commentators slightly shift the emphasis in interpreting Trump’s actions: they believe that through such statements and scandals he is simply mobilizing his “nuclear” electorate.

“Appealing to this electorate has worked so far. Is he doing the right thing? From a moral point of view, this is disgusting, disgusting. But will it hurt him? I don’t know,” says American sociologist John Zogby.

Such statements (on the verge or beyond the permissible limits) can mobilize part of the electorate, but also alienate part of them.

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“He knows his constituents like it, but the question is whether it will alienate moderate Republicans who are delighted with the state of the economy, but who do not like the president on Twitter and do not like this racist attack,” the correspondent says BBC Nick Bryant.

However, mobilizing one’s electorate and trying to discredit the democrats are two sides of the same issue.

“It makes people in America see the contrast between those who want socialism and hate the US and those who love the country. And this further mobilizes people,” Republican Party activist and Trump supporter Jen Holper-Hayes said on BBC television on Wednesday. - That is, this is a strategy on his part. A lot of people don't like his style, but they totally support him."

A survey conducted on Monday and Tuesday by Ipsos, ordered by Reuters, showed that Trump’s popularity among Republican members after the scandal grew by 5 percentage points to 72%.

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At the same time, Trump's approval rating among Democrats and non-party members fell.

“Still, he’s a racist too”

Trump's political opponents and critics insist that no matter what they say about the president's cunning strategy, he is, at heart, a racist and a xenophobe.

They recall that Trump began his campaign by participating in a movement that argued that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, then built his election campaign on the promise of a Cyclopean wall against Mexicans, then, once president, immediately imposed an indiscriminate ban on citizens entering the United States two dozen Muslim countries - and continues in the same spirit.

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The resolution, passed by the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, explicitly called Trump's statements "racist."

“I recognize racism at first sight. I feel it. There is no place for racism at the highest levels of government! It sows the seeds of violence and kills dreams and hopes. The world looks at us in horror and confusion because we seem to have lost our way - as a nation, as a proud and great people,” said 79-year-old black Democratic Congressman John Lewis, a veteran of the fight for black rights, during the debate on the resolution. American population.

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Even some of those who generally support Trump consider his recent statements to go beyond what’s permissible.

Anthony Scaramucci, the one who assures that Trump is not in fact a racist, was fired by the president as White House communications director in 2017 just 11 days after his appointment, but still, in his own words, remains a Trump supporter.

And yet Scaramucci still condemns his attack on the four democrats. “You can’t play to win at any cost. You are the leader of the free world, you must be the protector of every citizen! I think it's a bad strategy," Scaramucci said on the BBC on Tuesday.

Asked if he would have told Trump this when he was his communications director, Scaramucci replied: “I would have said that and I would have been fired immediately. Because he doesn’t listen to anyone, and people are afraid to tell him what I just said.”

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