I'm seeing a pattern here. Trump has a history of throwing people under the bus the moment they become a problem or an embarassment (in his eyes).
But he's still defending the alt right, time after time, and with this iteration by focusing on their enemies - Antifa - and throwing smoke to keep people from being focused on the racists who have consistently put things "up to 11" in the protests. I don't think he's doing this just because he likes them - saying something like "he's doing a fine upstanding heck of a job" has become a code word for "he's out of here."
No, if he's still friends with the alt right, it's because they're still useful to him. And my fear is they will be useful to him just before election night, when major cities in swing states are thrown into violence, lock downs, and curfews, and "oh how aweful it is that those liberals in the city can't vote but their republican neighbors in the suburbs and outstate can." Violence is the ultimate voter supression, it would be impossible to directly, legally, tie him to it, and frankly, I think he's up to it.
I think this also ties into his attempts to supress mail in ballots.
Do you think elections would be postponed? Do you think the Supreme court would allow them to be? I believe we have to look more closely at the people he still defends, and why they are still useful to him. Not just the alt right, but anyone who can help him win the election, anyone who can keep him out of jail.
So my quesstion is: who is he still friends with, especially when it doesn't make sense. That's where he's going to surprise us.
(My second question: did I use the Oxford comma correctly just above?)