Trump Plan to Win the Shutdown: A Noun, a Verb, and 'Caravan'

[spanone]

With the latest government shutdown of the Donald Trump era set to go into effect Saturday at midnight, the president and his team are already planning to ratchet up the fearmongering, nativism, and scare tactics in order to try to get Democrats to give in to their legislative demands.

It is a familiar strategy for Team Trump, though one that has not always proved politically successful in the past. In conversations throughout Friday, political advisers and allies of the president said that they would again trumpet instances of chaos and violence on the southern border in order to pressure congressional Democrats into agreeing to add billions of dollars in border wall funding as a condition for reopening the government.

All that could be for naught, as lawmakers pledged to continue negotiating through the weekend in order to reopen the government before the holidays. But should they prove unsuccessful, Trump aides have an aggressive PR plan.

One senior administration official described their shutdown comms strategy as a “caravan redo”—in reference to how Republicans spotlighted and demonized a group of migrants coming traveling to the U.S. southern border in the lead-up to the midterm elections. (The strategy failed to stop the blue wave that occurred.) The official said that Trump and the Republican Party would “draw contrasts” between their draconian immigration policies and the Democrats’ more inclusive approach.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-plan-to-win-the-shutdown-a-noun-a-verb-and-caravan?ref=home

[vlyons]

1. Presidunt Nasty Butt-show

I realize now why Republicans like President Nasty Butt-show. It's because he is willing and able to be the nastiest, dirtiest, vilest, most awesome bad stupid spokesperson for what they want. For all those greedy elite GOP senators, who serve the military industrial complex, Trump will dirty his hands and reputation in ways that they (the servants of the elite 1%) would prefer not to splash on their $3000 designer suits. But Trump don't mind.

[Achilleaze]

2. repblicans celebrate Christmas by crapping on refugee families

with trumped up lies.

Sick bastards.

[spanone]

4. sick bastards for sure.

[The Genealogist]

5. But don't tell them "Happy Holidays" as they do it.

That's the real travesty!

[empedocles]

3. Also provides more cover for trump's seasonal gifts to putin.