George Conway demolishes complaints that Trump's 'bloodbath' rant is being misrepresented

In a series of posts on X, attorney and frequent Donald Trump critic George Conway claimed it is "misguided" to claim Donald Trump's "bloodbath" threat was solely about the U.S. auto industry and pointed to his history of using inflammatory rhetoric to rile up his MAGA base.

Responding to push-back from the former president's people and conservatives who are labeling the accusations against Trump as a lie foisted on the public by the press, Conway suggested the former president knew all too well that he was pushing his supporters' buttons.

Admitting that Trump was ostensibly addressing auto workers, Conway wrote, "I’m willing to assume for the sake of argument that he was referring to cars. And it makes no difference to his malicious intent or to the danger he and his rhetoric poses," before adding, "What matters is that he consistently uses apocalyptic and violent language in an indiscriminate fashion as a result of his psychopathy and correlative authoritarian tendencies, and because he’s just plain evil."

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In an effort to elaborate, he continued, "It’s a classic trait and technique of authoritarian demagogues. He catastrophizes *everything* to rile up his cultish supporters, and to bind them to him, and to make them willing to do his bidding. That’s dangerous all around because he’s encouraging them to believe that conditions are so bad or will become so bad, and that the political opposition is so awful, that anything is justified—including law-breaking and violence—to prevent those conditions and to destroy the opposition."

"And so it doesn’t matter what he’s specifically referring to at the moment. He could be talking about trans people in public bathrooms or the state of the auto industry or the border—it doesn’t matter," he wrote before concluding, "He’s a dangerous psychopath, and after more than eight years of watching his sick behavior, we must not give him the benefit of the doubt."