The True Threat of Donald Trump's "Bloodbath" Speech

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : Trump had long been good for ratings, so in his first presidential run in 2016, he benefited from an unprecedented gift of free media, estimated to be worth more than $4.6 billion in unpaid advertising, as news networks such as CNN, MSNBC, and Fox irresponsibly aired his lengthy rallies at length with minimal editing.
66% : To a remarkable degree, Trump's words are now a markedly smaller part of public discourse than they were in his in his first presidential run.
61% : On Thursday in Dayton, Ohio, Trump delivered a speech that, going against recent trends, actually gained traction in the news cycle.
54% : For the third presidential election in a row, Trump has clinched the Republican Party nomination.
51% : After the aborted coup of January 6, 2021, there was a concerted and largely successful effort to deplatform Trump.
50% : Paradoxically, deplatforming might be helping Trump, since it allows Republican-leaning voters to conjure up a party standard-bearer who shares their politics rather than having to pay attention to the actual Trump, whose posts and speeches are animated by nastiness and recrimination.
48% : Steven Cheung, a Trump's campaign spokesman, e-mailed The Washington Post, "If you actually watch and listen to the section, [Trump] was talking about the auto industry and tariffs.
45% : In the current election cycle, the only people watching Trump rallies in full are attendees, journalists, and the few hardcore fans (or truly masochistic haters) dedicated enough to track down the events on C-SPAN or YouTube.
45% : Then Cassidy offered this important qualification: "The general tone of the speech is why many Americans continue to wonder, 'Should President Trump be president?'
37% : This has created an anomalous state of affairs where Trump is talked about as much as ever but rarely heard from in his own voice.
31% : But like all attempts to thwart Trump through nonpolitical means, deplatforming has failed as a strategy.
29% : "We're going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you're not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected," Trump said....
25% : Even before January 6, networks such as MSNBC and CNN had already started in 2019 to be more chary of giving Trump lengthy, unedited airtime.
25% : "Cassidy's remarks suggest that even among Republican elected officials -- a class that has every reason to want to appear as Trump loyalists -- the former president's rhetoric is unsettling.

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