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0 pointsintended1y ago0 comments

Right!!

It goes from "its the lefts fault, and maybe you shouldnt call people Nazi."

To "It works for Trump!"

to "trump connects to people. the left doesnt"

Lol. This is like when you are in an abusive relationship, and you are always wrong, and theres no real way to explain why you are always wrong - until you accept that one side is meant to be the loser in an abusive realtion.

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scarab921y ago

A more constructive take away, would be for the left to learn from and adopt some of what makes Trump successful.

If your primary personality is perceived as immature, it's going to cost you votes.

If you can connect with people on multiple levels, you can broaden your appeal by appeal to people with preferences for different levels of maturity.

intendedOP1y ago

>If your primary personality is perceived

Yes thats the key word. Control perception, and you can win. Which is what the repubs do. They can make someone who says heinous things, sound presidential.

The dems need to create that. Its cheaper, its more efficient, and it works.

I'd love for someone to come up with a workable alternative, but until they figure that technique out, the dems should figure out how to emulate what is working. Within their constraints of course. They are still a big tent party, so they cant do the same things as trump.

ModernMech1y ago

> They can make someone who says heinous things, sound presidential.

They do that by lying and gaslighting their voters. Fox News will call January 6 a "day of peace" and refuse to show the footage from that day of the insurrection, to the point where when Republican voters are shown footage of insurrectionists beating cops with American flags and crushing them in doors, they are surprised that's what actually happened.

That's the degree of information control that's necessary to make Trump sounds presidential, and we shouldn't wish our own representatives to gaslight and lie to us like that.

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hobs1y ago

The only real takeaway is the his base will be glad to Gish gallop their post hoc rationalizations for supporting him no matter what.

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