The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird’

The New York Times ^ | Aug. 9, 2024, 5:06 a.m. ET | Jamelle Bouie

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In 2016, Democrats taunted Donald Trump as “dangerous Donald.” In 2020, they moved on from dangerous to say that Trump’s Republican Party was a threat to the “soul of America.” Both messages — one relatively successful, one much less so — emphasized the threat that Trump posed to America and the world.

This year, as it mounts its third national campaign against Trump and his MAGA acolytes, the Democratic Party has abandoned the language of peril and danger in favor of something that is a little less heated.

Trump and JD Vance, Kamala Harris and her allies say, are “weird.”

It started with Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, now Harris’s running mate. Making the case against Trump and the Republican ticket in an interview on MSNBC, an almost bemused Walz said that the Republican Party was so outside the mainstream that it was off-putting to most Americans: “These are weird people on the other side. They want to take books away. They want to be in your exam room.”

Democrats immediately embraced Walz’s characterization of the former president and his running mate. Pete Buttigieg, the secretary of transportation, said Trump was getting “older and stranger.” Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania called Trump “weird” at a rally for Harris, as did Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, who also said that Vance was “erratic.”

“Weird” doesn’t sound like much. But of all the attacks Democrats have levied against Republicans since Trump came down that escalator, this one appears to hit the hardest. Republican politicians seem taken aback by the idea that they’re outside the mainstream, by the charge that their interests and priorities are alienating to the average American.

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Corporate gaslight press article presented under topic "humor" to grant it the respect it deserves.

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Republican politicians seem taken aback by the idea that they’re outside the mainstream, by the charge that their interests and priorities are alienating to the average American.

Says the clowns who can't define a woman, put tampon machines in boys' bathrooms, want men pretending to be women competing in women's sports, etc.

[Steely Tom]

I wasn't aware they even noticed this when it was last week's MSM-Democrat talking point.

[sjmjax]

I believe that the New York Times is the Lefts version of the Babylon Bee.

Unfortunately, the Left is humorless and totally incapable of producing decent jokes or memes.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Liberals calling anyone weird is like Stalin calling someone a dictator

[Altura Ct.]

This is not a thing

[Bookshelf]

Jamelle Bouie is a black weirdo.

[joshua c]

jamelle is trying to breath life into “weird” which actually died a quick death after all the memes in response

[Jamestown1630]

Nonsense

[BenLurkin]

PDJT is not “ alienating to the average American”

It is not the American people who hate him — it is the liberals.

[Freee-dame]

While checking out Latest Posts, I can usually tell by a headline when it is from the dailymail.uk because it is informational and factual in a way not often seen in the USA propaganda press. I can also usually tell when it is from the Babylon Bee. Lately I can also usually guess when it is from the New York Times. As soon as I click back to the article, I stop reading their worthless lies and Clinton speak.

[Vision]

Hahaha, how pathetic.

[Indy Pendance]

Dream on.

[Steve_Seattle]

The “weird” accusation isn’t replacing the apocalyptic fear-mongering, it is being added to it. More gaslighting by the NYT.

[Lizavetta]

Hate? HATE? LOL, I doubt they care.

[Jim W N]

Hey Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times, do you like being called weird?

Get a clue.

[TornadoAlley3]

No one cares about name calling when they can't afford to buy bacon or school supplies.

[Lumper20]

True.

[Shanty Shaker]

The name calling is an effort to push fabricated allegations into the mainstream vernacular. If the Republicans had used Reddit in this manner, Reddit would have deplatformed them.

[Gaffer]

This ‘weird’ thing is infantile nonsense and indicative of the true lack of substance anything Democrats can throw at Trump/Vance. I hear “weird” (which came from Hillary, btw) and I’m thinking “Huh? how dumbass are they, really?” Are they next gonna say Trump has Cooties or something?

Is this all they’ve got?

[M Kehoe]

Call me weird, call me a deplorable just don’t call me late for dinner.

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