"...Trump is not simply hoping that his supporters view him as a victim of an overzealous prosecutorial effort, as he hoped they might during the Russia travails. He is, instead, amplifying the idea that these Black prosecutors are coming after him because he’s White. While most Trump supporters were not likely to face a probe by the FBI’s counterintelligence infrastructure, most are White. And many of them think that Whites are targets of discrimination as often as Black or Hispanic Americans.
"For years, conservative media has been rife with stories about how White Americans are disadvantaged relative to non-Whites, an exemplar of the form of political judo that tries to turn a weakness into a strength. Here’s Trump indicating to his heavily White often upper-middle-class supporters that Black officials might be targeting him just because he is also White. He’s turning fears of 'reverse racism' into an empathy engine..." -- Philip Bump, in the Washington Post, writing on the Malignant Loser's "brute- force strategy" to rally Republicans using the "they're not coming after me, they're coming after you" parlay of victimhood to his advantage, this time injecting a vicious racial aspect into the appeal. Like the increasingly cornered rat that he is, the Malignant Loser's only concern is somehow saving himself, to hell with our country, its institutions or the rule of law.
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