After nearly a decade of being forced to take Trump seriously, Democrats increasingly call BS on the whole charade
Sure, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy — a would-be dictator on day one who has called for terminating the U.S. Constitution so he can hold onto power even after losing a free and fair election. But while draped in the rhetoric of populism, Trump and his MAGA movement are not actually popular; the man himself has never won more votes than the person he ran against, a majority of Americans twice rejecting him and his off-putting cult of personality. That he was ever president is more or less because a few thousand swing voters in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania thought it would be fun.
President Joe Biden won in 2020 largely by promising to a return to normalcy and baseline competency. In 2024, Democrats are making a similar argument but more forcibly: They’re pointing, laughing and dismissing Trump and his circus as a total freak show to which we can’t return.
He is weird, though. It’s a different kind of weird from mine, but still weird.
Sure, but everybody’s weird. That’s why it doesn’t work as an insult unless you are anti-diversity.
… which is precisely why it’s an excellent tactic to give pause to your average American.
Fortunately it’s being used against the anti-diversity side.
So, it’s aimed appropriately and hitting the mark?
We do not have to be anti-diversity to use attacks against them that key off their own shitty beliefs.