Opinion by Karen Tumulty: Donald Trump is promising the apocalypse
True, dystopian imagery is not exactly new to Trump, given that his inaugural address is most remembered for its reference to “American carnage.” But when he ran in 2016, Trump promised to be the miracle worker who “alone can fix it.” This time around, he asks voters to think of him as “your retribution.
Nor is Trump’s rhetoric necessarily landing only with a religious audience. It meshes well with QAnon conspiracy theories. And apocalyptic story lines are having something of a secular,Advertisement Even so, that a leading presidential contender is framing a campaign around end-of-the-world scenarios is not only weird, but more than a little dangerous, given that, for those who take Trump seriously, it has the potential to create a permission structure for violence. The presumption fostered by apocalyptic pronouncements is that “everything is permitted if those are the stakes,” Gorski said., along with what turned out to be false rumors of his imminent indictment by a New York grand jury.
In a posting on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump called Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg a “degenerate psychopath,” and posted an image of himself with a baseball bat next to Bragg — somethingTaking aim at Bragg in another social media missive, Trump wrote: “What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate for the Republican Party nomination,...
Trump’s campaign says that he picked Waco for his first campaign rally because it is a relatively easy drive from several metropolitan centers in a state that is solidly in his camp. But he also chose to hold the event during the 30th anniversary of a weeks-long siege of the Branch Davidian compound near there by federal law enforcement agents. The cult was led by David Koresh, who promised his followers that he would break the “seventh seal” and bring about the end of the world.
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