“President Trump and his party are entering the nine-week stretch until Election Day with their success riding on a hope that enough voters come to the following conclusion: You’re not as bad as we thought,” the New York Times reports.
“As part of this strategy, Republicans and the Trump campaign are attempting to focus voters’ minds away from the pandemic and economic crisis and on a narrower set of cultural issues. For example, the nation is in dire straits, they say, not because of Covid-19 deaths or double-digit unemployment or racial discord, but because of liberals who want to ‘cancel’ conservatives, criminals who are rampaging from the cities into white suburbs and a Democratic presidential ticket that is a ‘Trojan horse’ for Fidel Castro-style authoritarianism.”
