The Dog Whistle

[Griff]

https://theweek.com/speedreads/91962...-less-blowback

President Trump's re-election campaign was expecting some raised eyebrows after scheduling Trump's first campaign rally in months on June 19 — Juneteenth — in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a state Trump is expected to win easily, two campaign officials tell The Associated Press.

"But the campaign was caught off guard by the intensity" of the blowback, AP reports, especially when people made a connection between the date and the host city, site of one of the worst white massacres of black Americans in U.S. history, at a period where Trump is defending Confederate symbols and attacking protests demanding an end to police murdering and terrorizing black people.

What an easy win Trump had on his plate had he the leadership capacity to treat Covid-19 and police killings seriously. Now we're left with race-baiting... Mattis was right about his divisiveness.