The Trump convoy created traffic jams are not meant to win your vote.

They’re meant to make you feel fearful and to make Trump’s supporters appear more numerous and more powerful than they are.

They are also a threat.
You might imagine Trump supporters want to “win over” others because that’s how *we* think.

That’s not how they think.

They think in terms of dominance.

They are bullies, at a minimum.

These convoys are threat displays.
Many have pointed to similarities of these threatening convoys to ISIS convoys with their flags, trucks, and guns.

More apt comparisons are the convoys of the Taliban in Afghanistan and those of the KKK here. Both were/are theocratic nationalist movements.

But you get the idea.
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