Politicians have long cast their opponents as outsiders. But Donald J. Trump has
taken the strategy to an extreme level against Kamala Harris.

By Adam Nagourney
Aug. 2, 2024 | Updated 5:30 p.m. ET

"She is not one of us."

When former President Donald J. Trump challenged Vice President Kamala Harris’s
racial identity at a public forum on Wednesday — and again on social media the
next day — that was the message at the core of his remarks.

It is a tactic that has long been part of the underside of American politics:
presenting an opponent as somehow “other” or “not one of us” — someone who
cannot be trusted or truly known.

But while this has been a recurrent theme in American campaigns for at least a
century, Mr. Trump has taken it to a new level, historians and analysts said.
What has often been a subtext or a whisper campaign driven by surrogates is, in
Mr. Trump’s hands, a central message of his campaign — projected on screens at a
rally, promoted on social media and reinforced by his running mate.

Mr. Trump has personally led the effort, explicitly falsifying the biography of
his opponent and invoking race and gender in ways no modern major-party leader
has done before. Even as a noncandidate in the 2008 election, he deployed such
tactics against Barack Obama, demanding to see Mr. Obama’s birth certificate and
claiming that Mr. Obama — who went on to be the nation’s first Black president
and was born in Hawaii — was not born in this country.

“Whenever the United States is poised to break a political glass ceiling, we see
an intensification of othering in our politics,” said Timothy Naftali, a
presidential historian at the School of International and Public Affairs at
Columbia University. “What makes Trump a singularly poisonous political player
is that the top of the ticket is overtly engaging in othering against his
political opponent.”

Over decades, the tactic of othering has been wielded against candidates with
various backgrounds, characteristics and traits, among them race, ethnicity,
gender, economic class and religion — all in the service of making them seem
alien to voters. And it has often been effective. In 1928, Republican opponents
seized on the fact that Al Smith, the Democratic candidate for president, was a
Roman Catholic, suggesting that he would therefore be beholden to the Pope.

And it has long been a strain of politics in New York City, where Mr. Trump
spent many of the formative years of his life. In 1989, Rudolph Giuliani, who
went on to become a close ally of Mr. Trump, ran against David N. Dinkins, who
was Black. One of Mr. Giuliani’s top campaign surrogates, the comedian Jackie
Mason, described Mr. Dinkins, who would defeat Mr. Giuliani, with a pejorative
term used against Black people.

In the case of Ms. Harris, Mr. Trump for weeks had mispronounced Ms. Harris’s
first name, Kamala, which is a common name in India, and he made fun of her
laugh. On Wednesday, during an interview at the National Association of Black
Journalists convention, he said he had only recently realized that she
identified as Black, asserting — falsely — that she had abruptly changed her
identity.

“She was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she
became a Black person,” he said before the audience of journalists. Ms. Harris’s
father was Black and an immigrant from Jamaica, and her mother emigrated from
India; throughout her career in law and politics, Ms. Harris has identified as
Black.

Mr. Trump returned to the theme on Thursday on his social media platform, Truth
Social, posting a photograph of Ms. Harris with members of the Indian side of
her family. “Your warmth, friendship, and love of your Indian Heritage are very
much appreciated,” he wrote.

This is not Mr. Trump’s only line of attack: He has sought to draw distinctions
from her as well on some of the critical issues of today, in particular
immigration and the economy.

It is, to say the least, an open question whether Mr. Trump’s othering of Ms.
Harris might chase voters away from her or bring any to his camp. More than 12
percent of Americans identify as multiracial.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/us/trump-tactic-suspicion-harris.html

This can only hurt Trump, so I am going to write to the campaign and urge them
to keep saying this.

Trump has always been a vile, filthy racist, and he always will be. He has
always made his pitch to other vile, filthy racists like Hartung, the modern day
Pharisee

[Default] Rudy "Cunt Flaps" Canoza <rudy@phil.hendrie.con> typed:

>It is a tactic that has long been part of the underside of American politics:
>presenting an opponent as somehow “other” or “not one of us” — someone who
>cannot be trusted or truly known.

Which is 100% correct, "Cunt Flaps." She's not one of us. She hates
America.

On Sat, 03 Aug 2024 08:02:20 -0700, Klaus Schadenfreude
<klaus.schadenfreude.Zwergentöter.@gmail.com> wrote:

>[Default] Rudy "Cunt Flaps" Canoza <rudy@phil.hendrie.con> typed:
>
>>It is a tactic that has long been part of the underside of American politics:
>>presenting an opponent as somehow “other” or “not one of us” — someone who
>>cannot be trusted or truly known.
>
>Which is 100% correct, "Cunt Flaps." She's not one of us. She hates
>America.

Oddly Rudely missed the point that it is Kamela herself who brands her
race for whatever audience she is trying lie to.

Governor Swill wrote:
> How did we get on the subject of

YOUR DEATH THREATS AGAINST TRUMP ARE DOCUMENTED:

Governor Swill /Rudy Canoza/Lou Bricano/J Carlson/Michael A Terrell/Al
Feldhauser/Malte Runz and a dozen other socks wrote:

Multiple death threats against Trump:
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Cheer up, maybe someone else will try.

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> No. I am a patriotic American who wants the country and its people to
thrive. Getting rid of Trump permanently
> is an important step to getting there.

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That constitutes a DEATH THREAT against a former President, Rudey:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/871
18 U.S. Code § 871 - Threats against President and successors to the
Presidency
U.S. Code
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(a)Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail
or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any
letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any
threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon
the President of the United States, the President-elect, the Vice
President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office
of President of the United States, or the Vice President-elect, or
knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the
President, President-elect, Vice President or other officer next in the
order of succession to the office of President, or Vice President-elect,
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years,
or both.
(b)The terms “President-elect” and “Vice President-elect” as used in
this section shall mean such persons as are the apparent successful
candidates for the offices of President and Vice President,
respectively, as ascertained from the results of the general elections
held to determine the electors of President and Vice President in
accordance with title 3, United States Code, sections 1 and 2. The
phrase “other officer next in the order of succession to the office of
President” as used in this section shall mean the person next in the
order of succession to act as President in accordance with title 3,
United States Code, sections 19 and 20.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 740; June 1, 1955, ch. 115, § 1, 69
Stat. 80; Pub. L. 87–829, § 1, Oct. 15, 1962, 76 Stat. 956; Pub. L.
97–297, § 2, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1318; Pub. L. 103–322, title
XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

9-65.200 - Threats Against the President and Successors to the
Presidency; Threats Against Former Presidents; and Certain Other Secret
Service Protectees
The Counterterrorism Section of the National Security Division has
supervisory authority over 18 U.S.C. §§ 871 and 879 cases. As great
caution must be taken in matters relating to the security of the persons
protected by 18 U.S.C. § 871, United States Attorneys are encouraged to
consult with the Counterterrorism Section (CTS) of the National Security
Division when they have doubts on the prosecutive merit of a case. For
the same reason, dismissal of complaints under 18 U.S.C. § 871, when the
defendant is in custody under the Mental Incompetency Statutes (18
U.S.C. §§ 4244, 4246), requires approval from CTS. In other cases,
United States Attorneys must consult prior to dismissing a count
involving, or entering into any sentence commitment or other case
settlement involving a § 871 charge.

https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2024/01/phoenix-man-arrested-making-online-death-threats-against-president-and

PHOENIX –David Michael Hanson, 41, of Phoenix, was arrested on Wednesday
for making online threats against the President and Vice-President.
Hanson was charged by Federal criminal complaint on Tuesday with five
counts of Threats Against the President and Successors to the Presidency
and five counts of Interstate Communication of Threats.

The complaint alleges that in November and December of 2023, while
living in Arizona, Hanson used a social media platform to post threats
to murder the President and Vice President of the United States. On
November 19, 2023, Hanson posted online a series of threatening
statements including one that stated, “#joeAndKamala I’m asking you to
resign on Monday your alternative is death brutally murdered.” After the
U.S. Secret Service spoke to Hanson and warned him that it was a Federal
crime to post such threats, on December 23, 2023, Hanson posted another
series of similar threats aimed at the President and Vice-President.

Each count of Threats Against the President and Successors to the
Presidency carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a fine of
up to $250,000, and up to three years of supervised release. Each count
of Interstate Communication of Threats carries a maximum sentence of
five years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and up to three years of
supervised release.

A complaint is simply a method by which a person is charged with
criminal activity and raises no inference of guilt. An individual is
presumed innocent until evidence is presented to a jury that establishes
guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

In article <0jcvajd6d84v65br0lcv7p5c4p61qsnld0@4ax.com>,
governor.swill@gmail.com says...
>
> On Sat, 03 Aug 2024 08:02:20 -0700, Klaus Schadenfreude
> <klaus.schadenfreude.Zwergentöter.@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >[Default] Rudy "Cunt Flaps" Canoza <rudy@phil.hendrie.con> typed:
> >
> >>It is a tactic that has long been part of the underside of American politics:
> >>presenting an opponent as somehow ?other? or ?not one of us? ? someone who
> >>cannot be trusted or truly known.
> >
> >Which is 100% correct, "Cunt Flaps." She's not one of us. She hates
> >America.
>
> How did we get on the subject of Marjorie Traitor Greene?
>
Show us where that happened? Oh yea, you did it.

Skeeter wrote:
> In article <0jcvajd6d84v65br0lcv7p5c4p61qsnld0@4ax.com>,
> governor.swill@gmail.com says...
>>
>> On Sat, 03 Aug 2024 08:02:20 -0700, Klaus Schadenfreude
>> <klaus.schadenfreude.Zwergentöter.@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> [Default] Rudy "Cunt Flaps" Canoza <rudy@phil.hendrie.con> typed:
>>>
>>>> It is a tactic that has long been part of the underside of American politics:
>>>> presenting an opponent as somehow ?other? or ?not one of us? ? someone who
>>>> cannot be trusted or truly known.
>>>
>>> Which is 100% correct, "Cunt Flaps." She's not one of us. She hates
>>> America.
>>
>> How did we get on the subject of Marjorie Traitor Greene?
>>
> Show us where that happened?
>
>
TINU, pissbum noob.