Read it and think about it for a few moments.
Ponder ...
ponder ...
ponder a little longer ...
OK, done? Here's what I think. If a majority of Americans think Trump's MAGA movement is a threat to democracy (and it is), and they agreed with what the President said in the speech, then his speech was not the reason they thought that. The MAGA movement is the reason they thought that -- and thus the MAGA movement is dividing the country. Because there are about 40% of the country's population that don't think MAGA is a threat to democracy, and that would be to a very large extent those in the movement, and sympathizers that aren't quite in the march.
So the nation is divided about 60-40 about whether MAGA is a threat to democracy.
In the article, basically the same percentages believe that the President's speech was "divisive". Well, it wasn't the President's intent to tell the country MAGA isn't a threat to democracy. He wanted to highlight the danger. Thus, if he's highlighting to the 60% that agree with him what they already agree with, and the other 40% don't agree with him, he isn't in the business of building bridges between the two sides.
Basically, he wants everybody that's on his side of the divide to vote when and where they can, and hopefully in such numbers that MAGA and its sympathizers don't take over Congress. Because if you want to see divisive, that would do it.
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