If we doesn’t do anything to counter such moves, I wouldn’t be surprised if that happens again. We need to use the same weapon they use: play with emotions, in addition to what we already did (playing on issues). To win (some) of the women, I don’t see why we shouldn’t use similar tactics. Tbe difference, of course, Trump ads are real, not a movie production.
We hear over the year how Trump helped people wihout being publicized. Well, it’s time to highlight those.
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No. Trump would lose merely by trying to out-Democrat the Democrats by playing this game. All Trump needs to do is to stay on message and avoid personal attacks and nicknames. If Harris call him on any of his prior ones, he should immediately apologize and re-focus on his great issues.
I don’t see why we cannot do both. As they said, politics is personal. For some people, the ‘personal’ involves rational thinking: what policy the candidates will do that benefits me, etc. Other people, though, ‘personal’ mean some stories about the candidates that touch their emotions.
As I mentioned, unlike democrats who make it like movie production, Trump campaign can simply highlights his softer sides.
We let Trump and other conservatives be defined as cold-heart calculated persons. Partly because we never highlights their ‘feeling good’ sides.
Trump needs to limit personal attacks and avoid focus on them. He cannot and should not avoid them completely.
Personal attacks work.
The caveat is that personal attacks work in small doses only. But up to that point, they are more effective than issues at getting people to set a course of action. That is why the Democrats always use them.
We need to learn from our enemies. Yes, the Democrats are enemies. They are not stupid enemies. Not all of them, anyway.
People act on their "gut feelings" for nearly all their important decisions. Very few people have trained their feelings and intuitions with rational assessments and "lessons learned" from experience.
I like to believe that I am one of those superior people, "smarter than the average bear", who makes decisions with an iron-clad basis, and always the right decisions based on the issues at hand.
But - nahhh! I like Trump because he fights. The other candidates do not fight and are useless. Vivek put on a good show, but never actually did anything and has some questionable background. DeSantis did fight and even won some fights but picked some very wrong friends to back his campaign. He looked compromised by his Deep State backers.
There are many things that Trump did and would do which I do not like. But "I cannot spare this man: He fights".