FBI raid paves way for Trump: GOP lawmaker
Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., predicts how the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago will affect him and Republican voters on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’
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After Trump’s home was raided by the FBI, columnist Paul Waldman scorched Trump supporters in a Thursday op-ed for seeing the former president’s struggles as symbolic for their own.
Titled “Why Trump has to sell a fantasy of collective persecution,” Waldman’s piece claimed to readers that Republicans are using cynical victim narratives to rally their base: “right now, with investigations potentially closing in on Trump from multiple directions, they’ve homed in on a vital message: This isn’t about Trump. It’s about you.”
He mocked the idea that Trump’s travails are pitched as a “story in which every registered Republican is at risk of having their home ransacked by jackbooted government thugs.”
The columnist suggested that “a sense of oppression has become central to motivating conservative voters, a way of keeping them engaged, angry and feeling that they have a personal stake in the outcome of every political event.”
A man with a Trump 2024 flag is pictured outside Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida following an FBI raid on Donald Trump’s private home.
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The start of this political narrative, Waldman claimed, came during Trump’s initial 2016 campaign for the presidency when he “had an economic message with genuine appeal to a wide swath of voters, one that was based in truth even as it played on people’s resentments.”
He summarized that “at its heart was a truth: Across the Rust Belt and throughout rural America, people are indeed suffering long-term problems that the current arrangements of wealth and power aren’t fixing.”
All the same, Waldman…
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