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

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

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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.

[bray]

Pretty weak namecalling. What next rubber and glue?

[Shanty Shaker]

Meanwhile the effort is to reinforce the majority of D voters believe JD Vance had relations with a couch. Walz went there so he is probably not going to like the response.

[Red6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamelle_Bouie

Another guy that is only able to take about race, race, race... Only he’s figured out how to make a living off it.

[Pearfect]

NYT IS WEIRD.

[Flavious_Maximus]

Not too long ago, the NYT Jamelle Bouie was living in a jungle mud hut and carrying a club with a rhinoceros horn sticking out the end of it.

Pinch Sulzberger, while on safari, saw Bouie crouched behind a large rock, feasting on meal worms. Sulzberger immediately offered Bouie a job at the New York Times, figuring Jamelle would make an excellent addition to the newspapers collection of misfit Pulitzer Prize winners.

Now in the present, one has to marvel that the Old Grey Lady could produce such articles for it’s news hungry readers.

Is that weird enough for you, Jamelle. /spit

[Lisbon1940]

These are the same people who want to keep Austin weird.

[tet68]

Kamala Harris is WIRED !!!

[right way right]

Weird is a basement campaign hiding from media and unable to state differences between what is policy today and a future vision that differs from it…even with the country in the toilet with it’s people struggling just to afford food and gas.

[Sirius Lee]

I don't think either one of them give it a moment's notice.

Stop trying to make "weird" happen, demoncraps. It's not going to happen.

[falcon99]

I am amazed at the total insanity that is being exposed of those on the Left, including their brethren in the media. I seriously dobut Trump or Vance are upset by being called weird as we all know the Left is just projecting. This writer really needs to see a therapist.

[blitz128]

They are still riding that “weird “horse?
Kind of weird