This is advice they should have followed back during the general election season in 2016, but, they’re the people who keep falling for pranks again and again from the same person
House Democrats up in arms over President Trump’s attacks on minority lawmakers are sounding a warning to their own party heading into the 2020 elections: Don’t take the bait.
While Democrats have rushed to the defense of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the prominent Congressional Black Caucus member Trump has attacked this week, they also sense the president is setting a political trap.
Democrats won the House in 2018 campaigning on health care, income inequality and other legislative priorities, and there is concern that Trump’s rhetoric is designed simply to distract voters from those policy debates.
“I hope we don’t take the bait,†said Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), the former head of the Black Caucus. “The president always plays the race card when he’s having a bad news cycle. It’s easier to call people names when you don’t have anything else to point to.â€
Richmond himself took the bait by labeling it raaaaacist. And Democrats just can’t help themselves. They won’t stop taking the bait. They’ve been warned that Trump is trolling them. Especially with tweets, that are meant to get a rise out of them. Trump may say that “There’s no strategy. I have no strategy. There’s zero strategy”, but, there’s strategy. It’s all part of the master plan, and it keeps working.
“We’ve got so much work to do in Congress. … If we get sucked into this rabbit hole, spending our time reacting to every racist comment, every racist deed that this president has done,†said Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.), trailing off in exasperation.
“I really want us to stay focused. 2020 is coming.â€
She took the bait. And they’ll continue taking the bait.
But, why does Trump really do this?
The real reason Democrats defend Baltimore
Democrats and the liberal media are incensed that President Trump has criticized the mostly-black city of Baltimore, but not for the reasons you might think.
When Trump calls “Charm City,†as it was described by advertisers trying to boost its reputation in the 1970s, “FAR WORSE and more dangerous†than the situation at the Southern border, he highlights Democrats’ Achilles Heel—the wreckage left behind by their liberal policies, and most especially the damage done to minority communities.
They are terrified that black voters will tune in.
When Trump asked black voters in the 2016 election, “What have you got to lose?†he struck a nerve. One of the most startling elements in his unexpected victory over Hillary Clinton was that he won a higher percentage of the black and Hispanic vote than Mitt Romney in 2012, despite incessant media accusations that Trump was a racist.
It used to be that calling someone a racist was a serious and important charge. No longer. Today some Democrats have determined that not only is the president a racist, but so are all of his supporters. Joe Lockhart, CNN contributor and former press secretary for Bill Clinton, tweeted recently, “Vote for @realDonaldTrump and you are a racist.â€Â That kind of over-the-top insult could get Donald Trump reelected.
Trump is dropping the bait. He gets Democrats Outraged, and he exposes the Democrat agenda to those willing to listen.
