I Don't Think Trump Will Be Stopped By Repeating "Trump Bad" Over and Over
Even though Trump bad
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In my twice-weekly sweep of BlueSky — which I do to check in on the diet of the brain worm that’s devouring the American left — a narrative for this week emerged: The President is completely off the rails, and Democrats need to devote every fiber of their being to sounding the alarm.
I completely agree with the first part of that story. I don’t know what to write about Trump anymore — how many different ways can I say “This is a dumb and bad man doing dumb and bad things”? Did you see Trump’s message to the Norwegian Prime Minister, which history might ultimately call The Butthurt Dispatch? In a functioning democracy, something that unhinged would cause the president to be removed; in a banana republic, Trump’s generals would be drawing straws to see who gets to throw him out of the helicopter. This is a slow-motion disaster, and bad things are already happening, starting with the fact that we all have to admit that the world’s most annoying Resistance Libs were basically right.
Where I disagree with Blue Sky is that the solution to the crisis is to talk about the crisis non-stop. That strikes me as an emotional response, not a strategic one. And it’s exactly because I think we’re in a crisis that I think Democrats need to act shrewdly instead of flailing in a way that’s cathartic but useless.
Let me give an example — here’s a BlueSky post from the internet’s favorite person, Will Stancil:
