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Kamala Harris allies deploy new Trump attack line: he is ‘just plain weird’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2024
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Using hard language is seen by his supporters as an attack on them all and drives them into the defensive making Trump stronger. Calling him weird sidesteps that reaction and deflates Trump, especially if he launches a weird rambling speech as a response.
i see the point you're trying to make.. to think, all it took to beat trump this whole time was mollycoddling him and his followers....
like they've been doing for almost 10 years...
No, it's making fun of him. The trick that always worked on him and nobody has been using lately is simply making fun of him. Do you remember how defensive he got about all the talk about him having "small hands"? That shit drove him nuts. This bruises his ego, and the man is all ego...
It turns out that the schoolyard name-calling tactics are very effective on him, but Democrats mostly feel they're above that.
The previous approach was to focus on how he's a dangerous fascist, which his supporters were able to spin as strength. Focusing on how he's the kind of off-putting creep that you instinctively cover your drink as he walks by can't be spun that way.
i see that now, and it makes perfect sense in hindsight. if i had kids, they wouldn't be allowed anywhere near him
but also, fascism
Buddy, they think literally everything is an attack on them.
Or have you not seen the article about Christians getting upset about the Olympics because some drag version of The Last Supper (only it was actually based on a Dutch painting portraying Bacchanalia, but that would take knowing more than 3 famous paintings, so forget it).
It's time to stop making choices based on how this group of highly irrational people might react.
The hard core will never change their mind and be offended. The people that matter the most are the ones still capable of thinking by themselves, so I can understand not pushing them away.
And you have evidence that these people exist (in an amount that is not statistically insignificant)?