Why is Trump doubling down on racism?

[BmorePat87]

(07-02-2020, 04:28 AM)Dill Wrote: And more desperation and flailing to come, as Trump must counter

1) evidence of the increasingly successful fight against the Cornonavirus in countries that took the science seriously, at the same time as

2) Trump must brush off the hardest "hoax" to dismiss so far--the Russian bounties on US lives.

Over the next month he will be forced to address both failures of his duty to protect simultaneously.

HOAX--The numbers are good--HOAX--the numbers are good--HOAX--the numbers are good.

These are not the last scandals before the election, either.

If Biden doesn't have a stroke, he should be fine.

I think he's also feeling increasingly isolated from GOP leadership that usually blindly defends him. McConnell and McCarthy are pushing for masks, so much that Trump has gone from calling himself a "LONE WARRIOR" on the issue to now saying he's "all for" masks.