President Joe Biden has stunned everyone by saying that he is "not confident at all” of a peaceful transfer of power if Trump loses the election. The US leader told CBS that Trump promised a "bloodbath" for America in case he does not become national leader again.
Sounds shocking, but not to those who know what Trump exactly said at a campaign rally in Ohio in March this year. It is that speech the current president has suddenly recollected, and everyone is well aware of his sway to confuse and forget things. This only means that Biden's advisers hammered into his head the thesis of Trump's "promise" to plunge the United States into a "bloodbath" ahead of the interview.
And besides, one should bear in mind that that this CBS interview has been an integral part of Kamala Harris’ over-intensive all round ad campaign, with the establishment presenting her as "the only and irreplaceable beacon of democracy and the one to save America from Trump."
Let's explain it right away: Biden (or rather those who came up with the idea of voicing this thesis on the airwaves) has distorted Trump's words he uttered at a rally in Ohio. Back then, Trump spoke about the negative impact of car imports on the US car industry and his plans to impose a 100 percent tariff on foreign-produced vehicles. He said: “Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s gonna be a bloodbath,” implying that America's car industry would simply wither away. It was in this context that he issues the warning once no difference is made. And the only way out in this context is his coming to power.
But the Democrats have presented this in a literal sense. Biden said Trump "means what he says." "We don’t take him seriously. He means it, all this stuff about ‘if we lose it will be a bloodbath’ … [and] ‘stolen election’, you can’t love your country only when you win," Biden told CBS.
Actually, the POTUS has let it slip. Democrats apprehend that if Kamala Harris is declared winner, the Republicans will deem the election as stolen. Biden has simply given away the underlying understanding present in the minds of spin doctors at the Dems’ campaign headquarters.
The establishment is well aware that Trump’s electorate has a firm belief on the 2020 fraud when votes were counted to Biden’s favor. This entailed a historically unprecedented action — the assault on US Capitol by Trumpists on January 6, 2021. These voters, watching senile Biden and Harris the Dullard, are convinced that the "Washington swamp" will try to falsify election outcome this year.
Recent opinion polls suggesting that Kamala Harris is outdoing Trump, are only further convincing his followers that a new forgery is right behind the corner. The informal MAGA community (after Trump's slogan Make America Great Again!), believes that Harris' victory will be presented as "natural" public choice. They will be said to have sort of picked sides even before the vote, as is allegedly evident from the polls. Those in America who loathe being deceived are well aware that opinion polls are a tool for manipulating public consciousness.
Based on all these prerequisites, Trump's supporters are not going to tolerate another fraud and will maintain strict controls over both the voting and the head count process. But given the establishment’s intent to declare its candidate Harris the winner whatever the case, Trump supporters are assumed to definitely get outraged.
In this context, Biden's words do already look like a threat to the Republican voters. The establishment itself is preparing to suppress popular outrage in case Harris wins a fraud victory, if any, as MAGA claims. The message conveyed by the establishment to Trump supporters is to sit tight after all. If with all the schemes and intrigues the Democrats prove unable to falsify the election results amid Trump's obvious victory, the "bloodbath" thesis may translate into reality, though executed by the liberal establishment.
And public consciousness is already being put along this track by virtue of Hollywood. April this year saw the release of Alex Garland’s Civil War movie (Russia’s Fall of the Empire). As the plot unwinds, the United States is reigned by an authoritarian president, which is an obvious allusion to Trump, while the southern states rebel against the "usurper". From the filmed fantasy, the viewer must understand the level of suffering and deprivation an authoritarian president may push the country into.
But the option of resolving issues with political opponents through a civil war has not been stuck in the Democratic minds alone. Following the Pennsylvania assassination attempt on Trump, many Republican participants of that rally yelled something like: "They (Democrats) started it first! This is civil war!"
No one will undertake to say for sure that the United States has found itself on the brink of civil war, while unprecedented popular unrest or even riots are all but expected in the country. The closer the election day, the stronger US social polarization. Whether it is going to explode is anyone’s guess, but the sparks have already been thrown out up to the hilt.
