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Former President Donald Trump will likely adopt a new campaign strategy moving forward as the first-in-the-nation primary in Iowa approaches next month.
According to Just the News, Trump plans on trying to flip the “extremism” label that President Joe Biden and Democrats have tagged his supporters with back on 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.
Now, however, Trump is “leaning into” that label and is planning on using it to describe Democrats.
In an interview with Just the News, the 45th president revealed plans for an extensive campaign to persuade the American electorate that Democrats are, in fact, the fringe party, claiming they are out of touch with Main Street USA. Trump highlighted issues such as open borders, the influx of illegal immigrants and deadly fentanyl, support for Iran’s terror activities, inclusion of biological men in women’s sports and locker rooms, and advocacy for abortion on demand.
“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 close to Trump suggest that he views the extremism debate as a winning issue, and they believe that Biden’s Philadelphia speech will be a source of regret for him come next November. Trump referenced Biden’s speech during 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 then, Trump says he thinks he’s managed to focus on and define the arguments to make against Biden issue by issue. “Bidenomics” and the Democratic Party have adopted policies that are the “wreckers of the American dream,” making food and energy unaffordable with inflation and home ownership unattainable with high interest rates for tens of millions of Americans.
“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.”
