Great post except your repeated point that “Trump is a clown.” This is counter productive because it distracts from the truth which is much worse - Trump is a corrupt grifter who only cares about enriching himself.
If we focus on Trumps self interest, it helps moderate voters understand that he doesn’t care about them. Kicking 11 Million people off health insurance? Benefits him. Lower billionaires taxes? Yep. Raise everyone else’s? Check. Explode the federal deficit? Sure! Everything hr does he gets paid for? Yep!
It’s the clear through-line to every action. It needs to be the narrative. In addition:
1. Moderate American doesn’t believe he’s a clown so this claim undermines your credibility. (He is a billionaire who’s been elected President twice!)
2. Name-calling is his specialty and is repugnant to much of moderate America. Let’s positively differentiate by being better than him.
Well said, author. Too bad for the commenters who cannot resist the fascist urge to tell you what words to use and how to speak them. That lack of self-awareness is what makes it so hard for people to listen to their advocacy. But then again, this was written from a Purple POV, not the Blue (i.e, increasingly electorally unfeasible) one or the Red (increasingly blinded by its own power) one.
Couldn’t agree more! Belatedly Mayor Karen Bass calls for a curfew and without doubt Trump’s administration will be blamed for her having to call for that. One needs to feel empathy for police, National Guard, and especially Marines who are being called for duty to do something they may well very much disagree with. And of course shop owners and all innocent folks who get inconvenienced, lose wages etc. “Professional” agitators or to use a British term “hoodlums” don’t care about policy or party politics, they just love mayhem. If there would be any justification
for name calling compared to 1930’s they are the equivalent of the Brownshirts.
Arresting students for an op-Ed by masked men is Hitler-esque. Sending people to labor camps indefinitely with no due process is Hitler-esque. Having Pete Hegseth take away departments meant to look at civilian casualties is Hitler-esque. Openly endorsing the ethnic cleansing of a whole people in Gaza is Hitler-esque
You would think 1930s Germany was the only atrocity that had ever happened. There are probably 4 or 5 others going on right now. Use your imaginations, people.
Great post except your repeated point that “Trump is a clown.” This is counter productive because it distracts from the truth which is much worse - Trump is a corrupt grifter who only cares about enriching himself.
If we focus on Trumps self interest, it helps moderate voters understand that he doesn’t care about them. Kicking 11 Million people off health insurance? Benefits him. Lower billionaires taxes? Yep. Raise everyone else’s? Check. Explode the federal deficit? Sure! Everything hr does he gets paid for? Yep!
It’s the clear through-line to every action. It needs to be the narrative. In addition:
1. Moderate American doesn’t believe he’s a clown so this claim undermines your credibility. (He is a billionaire who’s been elected President twice!)
2. Name-calling is his specialty and is repugnant to much of moderate America. Let’s positively differentiate by being better than him.
Finally,
I 100% agree. Focus on the massive corruption, incompetence, and cruelty.
It may not be Hitler-level behavior, but it is similar Pinochet’s to actions in 1970s-80s Chile, particularly the disappearing of people.
Well said, author. Too bad for the commenters who cannot resist the fascist urge to tell you what words to use and how to speak them. That lack of self-awareness is what makes it so hard for people to listen to their advocacy. But then again, this was written from a Purple POV, not the Blue (i.e, increasingly electorally unfeasible) one or the Red (increasingly blinded by its own power) one.
Couldn’t agree more! Belatedly Mayor Karen Bass calls for a curfew and without doubt Trump’s administration will be blamed for her having to call for that. One needs to feel empathy for police, National Guard, and especially Marines who are being called for duty to do something they may well very much disagree with. And of course shop owners and all innocent folks who get inconvenienced, lose wages etc. “Professional” agitators or to use a British term “hoodlums” don’t care about policy or party politics, they just love mayhem. If there would be any justification
for name calling compared to 1930’s they are the equivalent of the Brownshirts.
Arresting students for an op-Ed by masked men is Hitler-esque. Sending people to labor camps indefinitely with no due process is Hitler-esque. Having Pete Hegseth take away departments meant to look at civilian casualties is Hitler-esque. Openly endorsing the ethnic cleansing of a whole people in Gaza is Hitler-esque
You would think 1930s Germany was the only atrocity that had ever happened. There are probably 4 or 5 others going on right now. Use your imaginations, people.