As the first-in-the-nation primary in Iowa draws near, it is expected that former President Donald Trump will embrace a fresh campaign strategy. Just the News reports that Trump intends to counter the “extremism” label that President Joe Biden and Democrats have associated with his supporters by redirecting it towards them.
“In the 15 months since Joe Biden stunned the nation with an ominous speech that turned the walls of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall blood red with optical lights, Democrats have beaten a relentless drum that the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement is, as the president declared, ‘an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic,’” the outlet reported on Friday.
Currently, Trump is embracing that characterization and intends to employ it when referring to Democrats. During a recent interview with Just the News, the former president disclosed his strategy to launch a comprehensive campaign aimed at convincing the American voters that Democrats are, indeed, the party on the fringes. He argued that they are disconnected from the concerns of everyday Americans on Main Street USA.
Trump emphasized various issues to support his claim, including the topic of open borders, the influx of undocumented immigrants and the dangerous presence of fentanyl, their support for Iran’s terrorist activities, their endorsement of biological men participating in women’s sports and using women’s locker rooms, as well as their advocacy for unrestricted access to abortion.
“It is a liability. They are extreme,” Trump said of Democrats during an interview Wednesday.
The outlet continued:
For Trump, this isn’t just a rhetorical flourish. A review of his last few months of his speeches, rallies, and interviews shows the 45th president and leader of the 2024 GOP presidential race has been carefully testing a messaging platform that paints Biden and the Democrats into an extreme corner on more than a dozen issues.
And while he hasn’t commandeered Biden’s hellish red lights yet, Trump has even invoked the devil’s home a time or two in recent days. Some commentators saw parallels to the movie “V for Vendetta” and even went as far to be make comparisons to Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.”
“We’re going to bring our country back from hell. It’s in hell. In hell. Not one thing has gotten better under crooked Joe Biden,” Trump told a raucous rally in Durham, N.C., ahead of the Christmas holiday.
Advisers in close proximity to President Trump indicate that he perceives the discussion on extremism as a favorable topic, and they anticipate that Biden’s address in Philadelphia will become a cause of remorse for him in the upcoming November. Trump made a reference to Biden’s speech while addressing a recent rally in Iowa.
“Biden and his radical left allies like to pose as defenders of democracy,” Trump said. “You see, he was standing up there not so long ago with the pink and red background – that looked a little bit sinister. I don’t know if he knew what the hell he was doing up there, but he was up there spewing the words that somebody wrote for him,” Trump said.
“But Joe Biden is not the defender of American democracy. Joe Biden is the destroyer of American democracy, and it’s him and his people,” Trump added.
Since that time, Trump claims that he has successfully concentrated on and clarified the points of contention to be raised against Biden, one by one. The policies of “Bidenomics” and the Democratic Party, according to him, have embraced measures that undermine the American dream, rendering basic necessities like food and energy unaffordable due to inflation, and making it impossible for tens of millions of Americans to own homes due to exorbitant interest rates.
“The American dream is dead with them in office,” he added.
“I will revoke every Biden policy promoting the chemical castration and sexual mutilation of our youth and ask Congress to send me a bill prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states. That should be easy,” he told CPAC in a speech in Washington, D.C., earlier this year. “We will keep men out of women’s sports. How ridiculous.”