Here's why Trump won't double down on 'united reich'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Trump said there were "very fine people on both sides" after the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
43% : Donald Trump posted a video Monday featuring what the frontpage might look like if he wins the election.
43% : Trump had dinner with white supremacist two years ago.
43% : But we can also count on Trump or one of his surrogates doing it again.
41% : Host George Stephanopoulos said, rather matter-of-factly, that the video is "the latest in a series of antisemitic and authoritarian statements from Trump and his campaign.
33% : A spokesman issued a statement saying that Trump "is not playing games; he is telling America exactly what he intends to do if he gains power: rule as a dictator over a 'unified reich.'"
32% : So specific, in fact, that a man like Donald Trump, who can be trusted to double down on virtually anything, no matter how vile, did not double down on it.
23% : Historian Heather Cox Richardson said this morning, after referencing the video, that "it is not clear to me how anyone can any longer deny that Trump is promising to destroy our democracy and usher in authoritarianism."
23% : There's utility, I think, in maintaining the accusation knowing that eventually Trump or one of his surrogates is going to do it again and prove the accusation right.
7% : Some say this is a bad strategy, as calling Trump a fascist to people who already espouse fascist tendencies is not going to move them toward voting for Joe Biden.

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