Posted on 08/21/2024 2:32:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
How to attack former President Donald Trump?
It’s a question that has tormented Democratic Party strategists for nearly a decade. Hillary Clinton called him “Dangerous Donald” and a racist. President Biden uses grave and lofty terms to describe him imperiling American democracy.
Vice President Kamala Harris is trying something different: deflating him.
The first two nights of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago have brought into sharper focus the lens through which Ms. Harris and her allies intend to frame Mr. Trump from now until Election Day. In slickly produced videos shown to delegates and in speech after speech, a host of attacks emerged. Ms. Harris is the future-oriented change agent, and Mr. Trump is the stale past. He’s been playing a long con on the American people that has outlived its expiration date.
The goal of Ms. Harris’s anti-Trump messaging is trying to shrink her opponent in order to rise above him, minimizing him and disengaging from him to avoid getting drawn into reacting to his every provocation. There is less engagement on highlighting Mr. Trump’s racist statements or casting him as a threat to democracy, than focusing on a portrait Democrats believe will resonate with voters: that of Mr. Trump as a meanspirited fraud who only cares about himself and his billionaire friends.
The attacks are designed not just to earn applause on the floor of the convention hall but also to win votes. The goal is to erode Mr. Trump’s support among the undecided and mostly white middle-class voters in the three so-called Blue Wall states that are likely to decide the election: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Mr. Trump, Ms. Harris and her allies are effectively saying, is a fake working man’s populist and an anti-union “scab” who has revealed himself to be selfish to an un-American...
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Good luck with that, Camilla.
Self interested, selfish people do not hang around to maliciously prosecuted (political persecution). They would be long gone.
Which he never has been.
They said he’d “sell out the country for a dollar”.
Really? There had never been the slightest evidence of that.
He lost money in public service.
The Democrats basically reveal themselves to be self-interested frauds. They always tell you who they are.
Self interested fraud.....the dims projection of the day
I guess he was selfish taking a bullet to the head.
Democrats are scumbags.
This. He lost LOTS of money in public service.
Most politicians and their families, such as the Bidens and Obamas , end their time in high office far richer than when they began. Trump, on the other hand, donated his salary and ended his term much poorer than he started. The power of our propaganda media is so evident in that most people who vote Dem do not even know this
Self interested fraud. Pot meet kettle.
The only modern ear politician to risk his life, fortune and freedom fighting the deep state is somehow the corrupt one.
Did Orwell talk of projection? It’s the stupidest tactic like “I know you are but what am I” from grade school but it actually works for them because their voters are mentally retarded and the media spread sit like gospel.
article trying to show a meager walz living off a teachers pension , no assets, no investments, no business ventures, he’s just a regular guy like me and you.
I did a guesstimate of the annual retirement income of Tampax Timmy A-Walz and his wife:
$100,000 US House pension $ 60,000 Social Security (2 checks - him and his wife) $ 40,000 annual compounded interest [403(b) - 2 accounts] $ 40,000 gubernatorial pension $ 30,000 National Guard retirement pay ======== $270,000 total annually
Not bad scratch, if you can get it. $135 an hour, retired.
We won't even talk about their gold-plated Cadillac health care packages.
Plus, they sold their house and are living in a rental house while the Minnesota governor's mansion is being renovated.
The biggest tax ticks ever spotted in the wild...
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We won't even talk about The Kamunist's no-show jobs while she was servicing Willie Brown, or the Biden Family Syndicate and its self-interested money grabs all over the world.
They accuse the man of self-interest who took no salary for four years as President.
Name a single Democrat who took no salary while in office.
Democrats always leave office with millions of dollars they did not have before they took office.
The Obamas are now worth $70 million. Why don’t they spread THEIR wealth around? They always claim other wealthy people are not giving their fair share.
If Democrat millionaires were not such HYPOCRITES, they would ALL share their wealth with their poor constituents the politicians claim are being royally screwed by the wealthy.
What about Tampon Timmy’s SECRET CHINESE BANK ACCOUNT because you KNOW China wants to KEEP him in their pocket.
...modern ear...?
If he was self interested what was his motivation to run for office?
None of these bureaucrats have ever employed anyone. They write bills spending $billions our money on worthless pork. Have any of these lazy grifters ever signed the FRONT of a paycheck?
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