Could Trump incite a new civil war? Yes. And he’s doing his d*mnedest to do just that. But I do not believe it’ll be the civil war he’s desperate for.

Here’s the problem. He and his dangerous ilk want a race war. I do not see that on the horizon.

What I see is a possible civil war emerging between Whites who support him and Whites who totally reject him and all that he stands for. They want him gone as much, if not more than, the rest of Us (non-white Americans).

President Trump has been preoccupied with big-city crime for more than 30 years.

In 1989, he took out ads in New York newspapers asking, “What has happened to our City over the past ten years?” (The ads implied he favored the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers who turned out to be wrongly accused of a rape.)

In his 2016 presidential campaign, he made false claims about how dangerous Oakland, Philadelphia and other cities were.

And now he seems to have decided that sending — or threatening to send — federal troops to Chicago and other cities is his best hope for turning around a struggling re-election campaign.

Meeting with reporters in the Oval Office yesterday, Trump said that he planned to deploy federal law enforcement agents to Chicago, after already having done so in Portland, Ore., last week. He suggested he might also do so in New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore and Oakland. He was vague about the reasons, saying all of the cities were run by “radical left” Democrats.

But the politics of the move are fairly clear. Trump is trailing Joe Biden in the polls, and the move lets him try to shift the nation’s attention away from the coronavirus crisis. Instead, he can run against two of his favorite bogeymen: “the radical left” and big-city crime.

You are right about that Truth. I was reading something about this yesterday. It was saying Trump wants to stir up trouble in the street so he can come in there and rescue America and look like a hero. A lot of presidents create a war when they are down in the polls. That is what he wants to do except right here in our neighborhoods.