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Trump Uses Mount Rushmore Speech to Deliver Divisive Culture War Message – The New York Times

By Thomas A. Smith

WASHINGTON Standing in a packed amphitheater in front of Mount Rushmore for an Independence Day celebration, President Trump delivered a dark and divisive speech on Friday that cast his struggling effort to win a second term as a battle against a new far-left fascism seeking to wipe out the nation s values and history.

With the coronavirus pandemic raging and his campaign faltering in the polls, his appearance amounted to a fiery reboot of his re-election effort, using the holiday and an official presidential address to mount a full-on culture war against a straw-man version of the left that he portrayed as inciting mayhem and moving the country toward totalitarianism.

via www.nytimes.com

“. . . a straw-man version of the left that he portrayed as inciting mayhem and moving the country toward totalitarianism.” Ah, that doesn’t sound too straw-mannish to me.