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Trump's MAGA emails are increasingly erratic
Trump's MAGA emails are increasingly erratic
Nearly all of Donald Trump's correspondonces with his fans wildly swing between professions of love and hate
By Chauncey DeVega
Senior Writer
Published October 7, 2024 6:23AM (EDT)
(Salon) The presidential election is next month. Donald Trump is feeling the pressure. He planned on running against President Biden and not Kamala Harris. Since becoming the party’s nominee, Harris has closed the gap with Trump and is now leading in the national polls. Harris is tied with Trump in the key battleground states. The election is still one of the closest in modern American history; however, it is not the cakewalk it likely appeared to be when the summer kicked off.
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In an especially sinister move — even by Trump’s vilely low standards — the corrupt ex-president is using his propaganda emails to target and incite violence and hatred against non-white “illegal immigrants,” refugees and other non-citizens. In an email sent last week, Trump told his followers: “Don’t let anyone view your screen." The fundraising email is styled as some type of secret message, an “eyes-only” communication akin to the ones sent to intelligence operatives or perhaps something lurid that could get them in trouble if others were to see it.
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Trump, whose campaign and authoritarian political project is based upon racism and nativism (and crushing any opposition to him and the MAGA movement), is emphasizing the distinctions between friend and foe, the “verified citizens” and those who are not. This message cannot be properly understood outside of Trump’s Hitlerian threat and promise to “purify” the nation’s “blood” of human “vermin.”
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To that point, Trump’s fundraising email continues:
“I’ve registered my campaign’s Official Citizens Only Survey in YOUR NAME.
I promise that your responses will be kept completely confidential from the WOKE MOB, so this is your chance to be completely honest with me.”
Trump asks for demographic information and political beliefs of his followers to weed out the “verified citizens” from the enemy Other. ......................(more)
https://www.salon.com/2024/10/07/maga-emails-are-increasingly-erratic/