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    Trump badly miscalculated in Portland – and even he knows it | Cas Mudde

    Trump overestimated how much voters fear ‘antifa’ - and underestimated how terrible his ham-fisted authoritarianism would look
    by Cas Mudde Jul 31, 2020 4 minutes
    ‘Strengthened by the information from his rightwing bubble, the Portland protests must have looked like a golden opportunity to him.’ Photograph: Yuri Gripas/EPA

    Opponents of Donald Trump often describe him as a “political genius” who has a cunning understanding of the anxieties and fears of American society, and is able to create and use crises to his favor. The current standoff in Portland shows, yet again, that this is not the case. While his alleged fight against antifa will satisfy some of his far-right supporters, it increasingly risks further alienating the so-called “moderate” Republicans – which seems mostly used to describe better-off pocketbook Republican voters – who are already feeling uneasy over his Covid-19 handling and the economic fallout of the pandemic.

    An almost implemented a more repressive approach to Covid-19, including those governed by progressive parties (like Spain), while most far-right governments used it to push through draconian repressive measures (such as and ).

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