Trump’s stunning embrace of slavery’s symbols will backfire (opinion)
CNNEditor’s Note: Frida Ghitis, a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. CNN — It’s a sight to behold: Donald Trump, the US President, rising up to protect the symbols of the most shameful parts of America’s past, punching back against his collapsing poll numbers with a new campaign aimed to appeal to his most racist supporters and hoping to expand that core by creating more divisions and more fear. The snappy new motto of the Trump 2020 campaign would more fittingly be changed to “Hate One Another.” The strategy was already an outdated failure in the 1960s. Today, with millions of Americans sickened by the coronavirus, the economy in a deep recession, and Trump’s response to the crisis – and to the protests over police killings of Black people – seeming to only make it all worse, the President has seen his support start to evaporate. That’s why Trump’s “hate one another” strategy looks like not much more than another in a string of his embarrassing failures.
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