Republicans argue Trump must be elected to save country from the chaos that has been unleashed under President Joe Biden
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To make a far from original observation, Trump is essentially running Richard Nixon’s ’68 campaign, only that seems less well-adapted to an election where you’re the incumbent:
The final night of the RNC, like all the ones before it, reflected the strategic logic that presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway had articulated on Fox & Friends Thursday morning: “The more chaos and anarchy and vandalism and violence reigns, the better it is for the very clear choice on who’s best on public safety and law and order.”
The acts of arson, theft, and property destruction (politically motivated and otherwise) that have proliferated alongside this summer’s Black Lives Matter protests earned a mention in nearly every after speech Thursday night. A lament from the widow of a police officer killed amid unrest in St. Louis was undeniable in its emotional potency (if dubious in its ethics). An explosion of bile from prodigiously sweaty, suspected criminal Rudy Guiliani was less effective, but more telling.
“Murders, shootings, and violent crime are increasing at percentages unheard of in the past,” Guiliani said of New York City, during Trump’s time in office. “These continuous riots in Democratic cities gives you a good view of the future under Biden.”
The riots transpiring in cities right now — on Donald Trump’s watch — gives us a view of the future under Biden.
Of course, the fact that the cities in question have overwhelmingly Democratic municipal governments is supposed to let Trump have his incumbency and “change candidate” status too. And perhaps, on a political level, this gambit will work. If it wasn’t clear four years ago that the stupidity or cynicism of a political tactic has no bearing on its efficacy, it is now.
But what is the logic of Guiliani’s argument supposed to be?
The good news for Republicans is that thanks to the perfect instrument created by our omniscient framers you don’t need to be good if you can appeal enough to massively overrepresented constituencies while suppressing the votes of your opponents.