His intentions are easily discerned from his behavior. Reading his mind is simple because it's so transparent.
But Trump understands one thing: to mobilize voters you need fear. Fear of the "other" [mostly China and immigrants] has been his calling card to date, but he knows he was only elected because there was a long-standing fear of Hillary built in amongst conservatives. Now he has something else to point to for his supporters -- the "other side" is lawless rioters and looters and anarchists. It's not true, and doesn't take into account the cause of the riots, but he actively wants those rioters to be as bad as they possibly can so that he can show his supporters that he's the only man protecting them from the rioters.
They are doing plenty of the work, true. But do you notice how past Presidents have tried to unify, whereas he actively works to inflame the protesters. They're taking the bait beautifully, because they don't understand that their actions benefit him.
I respect your opinion bwarbiany.
it seems that the fear that may drive voters to him is actually grounded in what they see as facts. Maybe he is taking advantage of that, just like The Dem nominee who is running very inflammatory, decisive ads to create the narrative that his opponent is associated with racially painful events.
but the prevailing conversations coming from policy voices which would be their other choice, and fanned by the media and the voice leaders on TV and social media( celebs)- scare the living hell out of them, and always have- long before this Prez was around- and likely always will.
You can’t pin the lefts positions on gun control, abortion, immigration, law enforcement- hell the list is endless- on POTUS.
I assure you- if he did not exist- their fear of what they see on their iPhones and tv screens right now would still scare the shit out of them.
Here is but one example. It shocks them that the media is more concerned about the “photo op” which they see all the time from other Prez, politicians, etc - than the bacterium that St Johns charge was set ablaze and that the “ peaceful protesters @ were “ peacefully stopped “ by the national guard as they marched toward the Vietnam Memorial. Nobody doubts they would have de-faced it.
