The media softballing about him is how he ended up in office the first time. No, when someone is a threat to democracy itself it is their responsibility to say it as loudly and often as humanly possible. They failed in their responsibilities in 2016, straight-up.
Exactly.
Playing softball now is
handing Trump the presidency.
They have to go
HARDER.
Trump and Republicans are going to try to make this whole election now about Trump being a “martyr.” When the reality is - violence follows Trump everywhere he goes because he invites it in.
He energizes extremists and
THAT should be the message.
Rather than Biden and co bowing down to Trump. Now is the time to bring back images of January 6, Gretchen Whitmer being kidnapped, the MAGA bomber sending out bombs to all of Trump’s enemies, Heather Heyer, how after Trump condemned a minority group that group was met with a rise in hate crimes against them including
mass shootings.
There is a
VERY easy way to combat Trump’s “oh woe is me, I’m a martyr now” narrative and that is -
reminding people what his four years in office was actually like because of -
HIM.
My hope is that since Biden and co are helping to make Trump into a martyr that The Lincoln Project steps up and spreads these reminders everywhere.
From seeing their angle and that they aren’t afraid of getting in the mud with the elephants, I have a feeling they’re thinking along the same lines in terms of how to combat what Trump and Republicans will now want the messaging to be.
They want violence to be a talking point? Okay, we make it one and we have
A LOT more receipts. It’s very easy to turn that table, one just has to do it (hopefully The Lincoln Project will).
If anyone is wondering why I have no sympathy at all for Trump: as a latino bisexual first generation immigrant living in a red state, one of my constant memories was feeling like a target was on me. That’s because every time Trump tweeted or spoke, his red shirts would literally target us. I lost count of the number of mass shootings against my communities.
Trump getting back in doesn’t scare me, I have faith in the balances and checks as they held him in place the last time. My greatest fear is his psychopathic devotees and how he can rile them up to kill for him.
Words matter. Heated political rhetoric, especially derogatory language toward groups of people, can create all kinds of unintended consequences, including sometimes physical violence.
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