Introducing the song that gives the tour its name, he said: “In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration. Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring!”
The 4D chess of it all is, publicly criticizing Trump now sounds the same as Fox News and MAGA have sounded since Obama took office 15 years ago.
The strategy has always been to declare all these terrible things are already happening and make the public numb to hearing this rhetoric. Then later, when they take office, they can just do those things and the public doesn’t know how to react, because half the population was already mentally there. You say “Trump is corrupt! He’s destroying the country!” and people just say, “mhm, the president is corrupt, what else is new?” and go back to scrolling social media.
It’s the end-game for the Whataboutism strategy that the GOP has been leaning on for decades.
Idk I feel like Bruce has been pretty on point at least for the last few years. A lot of his songs going back decades are very anti-corporate and draw from historic events where greed ruled over morality.
I think you took away a different meaning from my comment than I intended.
Yeah, by starting with “The 4D chess of it all” you kind of implied that the people speaking out against Trump, Springsteen in this case, was either intentionally or unwittingly enabling them by normalizing the situation.