ELECTION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The music was brooding. The imagery triumphal. The villains all the same. A video shared on Tuesday [4-9-19] by President Trump — until it was taken down, apparently over a copyright infringement complaint — left no doubt that his re-election would rest on a remobilization of the voters who put him into office, playing to a sense of their grievance against an elitist culture that looks down on them. And he did it while speaking no words. The president hit send on a two-minute video on Twitter from a supporter to his nearly 60 million followers as if to remind them why they backed him in the first place. In white words against a black backdrop, the frames scrolled by: ‘First They Ignore You,’ ‘Then They Laugh at You,’ ‘Then They Call You Racist.’ The video opened with a tight shot of President Barack Obama, then cut to Hillary Clinton, both clearly cast as politicians who belittle Mr. Trump’s hard-line conservative base. It went on to show a headline that said Mr. Trump had been exonerated by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.”
–Michael Tackett, “Fan’s Video, Shared by Trump, Plays to Base’s Sense of Grievance,” The New York Times online, April 9 2019