Also, Dems are bloodthirsty for anyone to the left of Cory Booker rn.
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The Trump admin has been doing something like a strategy of tension wrt to BLM as part of their election campaign, as exemplified by the Portland unmarked van incident. The Biden administration will just want it to go away. I think they will start out by putting forward platitudes and “dialogue” the way any president other than Trump would have, but if that doesn’t work then intensified repression is likely on the table. Through both stages, they will probably leverage their support from establishment civil rights leaders like the NAACP and Clyburn.
There have been protests in Portland for over 100+ days now. Trump authorized usage of the NDAA (which Obama wrote and passed) with the unmarked vans.
He didn’t just do it in Portland, he also did it in Kenosha and there has been rumors that it happened in Minneapolis too after the Breonna Taylor verdict.
It wasn’t an election campaign strategy. It was requested by representatives in those cities. The cops have been waging an all out war on protesters for months now.
