Trump’s ‘Go Back’ Tweet Lit a Match Under His Own Coalition
Trump’s Sunday attack on four Democratic congresswomen of color instantly became a racial-identity scandal, not a policy fight, and that was the whole problem. The tweet accused the lawmakers of coming from “broken and crime infested places” and told them to go back and fix those places before complaining about the United States, a message that drew immediate condemnation as xenophobic and racist. It handed Democrats a clean line of attack, forced Republicans to answer questions they did not want, and locked Trump into the exact kind of grievance politics that keep his base loud and everybody else furious.
First recorded Jul 14, 2019·Meaningfully updated Jul 14, 2019
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Trump’s ‘Go Back’ Tweet Lit a Match Under His Own Coalition
Trump’s Sunday attack on four Democratic congresswomen of color instantly became a racial-identity scandal, not a policy fight, and that was the whole problem. The tweet accused the lawmakers of coming from “broken and crime infested places” and told them to go back and fix those places before complaining about the United States, a message that drew immediate condemnation as xenophobic and racist. It handed Democrats a clean line of attack, forced Republicans to answer questions they did not wa…
Trump’s Sunday attack on four Democratic congresswomen of color instantly became a racial-identity scandal, not a policy fight, and that was the whole problem. The tweet accused the lawmakers of coming from “broken and crime infested places” and told them to go back and fix those places before complaining about the United States, a message that drew immediate condemnation as xenophobic and racist. It handed Democrat…
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