‘Donald Trump is losing his marbles,’ former Congressman and Republican Adam Kinzinger said

‘Donald Trump is losing his marbles,’ former Congressman and Republican Adam Kinzinger said

Republicans are concerned that party leader Donald Trump is having a “public nervous breakdown” after he made a series of offensive outbursts about Vice President Kamala Harris as he slips behind her in the polls.

The former president has made a number of  insulting personal attacks against his Democratic rival since she moved to the top of the ticket. Last week, Trump questioned Harris’s racial identity  at the National Association of Black Journalists conference. Over the weekend, he accused Harris of having a “low IQ.”

New polls indicate Trump is slipping behind the vice president in the popular vote and races are tightening in battleground states.

“This is what you would call a public nervous breakdown,” Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist and former Trump state department appointee, told Politico.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    11·
    5 months ago

    And yet Democrats believe all sorts of myths about him anyway. And ignore things like how he stalled civil rights legislation and got the U.S. into Vietnam.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      I suppose some do, but no one’s actively promoting that. Are they? The record is pretty clear by all accounts.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        11·
        5 months ago

        If the record was clear, people wouldn’t still be talking about Kennedy when they talk about civil rights. And yet they do. All the time. Actively.

        I’m not sure why you don’t think politicians reach back to their predecessors and talk about how amazing they were when it constantly happens. With Democrats, it’s Kennedy. With Republicans, it’s Reagan.

        • Optional@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 months ago

          The Early Sixties
          Racial tensions continued to build. In 1962 President Kennedy sent hundreds of U.S. marshals to enforce a court order to admit African American James Meredith to the University of Mississippi. The marshals encountered fierce resistance from violent segregationists. In a melee, two people were killed and dozens injured. In February 1963 Kennedy submitted a civil rights bill to Congress that did not address the important issue of integration of public facilities. He did little to support the bill and it floundered. When racial violence erupted in Birmingham, Alabama, in May 1963, John Kennedy realized it was time to put forward a broad new civil rights bill. Most of his advisers told him it would be a terrible political mistake. But Robert advised him that the future of the country was at stake and urged him to go ahead with the bill.

          A Landmark Speech
          On June 11, 1963, the day that Governor George Wallace made his “stand in the school room door” to prevent two black students from attending the University of Alabama, President Kennedy spoke to the nation in a televised address to ask for support of the civil rights bill. He said, “We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities.”

          Two Reactions
          For some, Kennedy’s speech was a long-awaited show of support. “All of a sudden, he brought passion to it, he brought that eloquence to it and it electrified me and all kinds of other black people,” Roger Wilkins remembered. Fellow civil rights activist John Lewis said, “that night in June… he spoke, I think, to the heart and to the soul of America. I would never forget that speech.” For others, the speech was intolerable. Later that night, a reply came from those who opposed civil rights. Segregationist Byron de la Beckwith shot and killed Medgar Evers, the NAACP’s field secretary in Mississippi.

          Source

          I dunno how we got here from couch-fucking memes, but, okay?

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            1·
            5 months ago

            He did little to support the bill and it floundered.

            Cool. One sentence that is a mild criticism of what actually happened.

            Thank you for proving my point.

            Please do show me the next link about how the Soviets started the Cuban Missile Crisis.

            • Optional@lemmy.world
              1·
              5 months ago

              There’s more in the paragraphs before about their unwillingness to pursue civil rights legislation. Suffice to say it was more nuanced than “JD Vance fucked a couch”.

              What’s your point again?

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                1·
                5 months ago

                My point was that most Democrats think Kennedy was 100% for civil rights regardless of what website you might find says. They also think he saved the world by resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis without knowing he started it.

                Because they believe things that aren’t true.

                • Optional@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  5 months ago

                  So, what you’re saying PBS is pretending Kennedy supported civil rights in the documented speech he gave supporting civil rights which was praised by people including John Lewis as a watershed moment for civil rights? I mean sure, you can prove anything with facts.

                  And you’re saying Kennedy started the Cuban Missile Crisis by moving nukes into Turkey?