and it’s not even that the “kitchen table issues” the focus groups push relentlessly are unpopular - they clearly aren’t - but the delivery matters there’s a difference between angry old man Bernie rants about affordability and Chuck Schumer reading off a cue card
Wrong message, wrong messages. Next?
disagree with Bernie on a lot, but this is dead on. the dude means what he's saying. in today's nightmare, if feels like the only people left that might change their minds on anything are screaming for people to just mean what they say, and the D's need people to change their minds about them
but but but avocados are an ingredient in [adjusts reading glasses] guacamole
There is reason everyone like Jasmine Crockett and AOC and why no one can stand Hakeem Jeffries. Jeffries doesn't even seem to care enough to get mad about the things happening around him.
The Dems gerontocracy were traumatized by the then-new Fox News. Fox made/invented news by jumping on & exploiting any Dem gaffe, getting huge ratings and traction. Instead of telling Fox to get fuct, they tried to be as bland & boring as possible. The only thing normies respond to is authenticity!
this is one of the things about his appeal that drives my brain mad - he’s seen as authentic even when he contradicts himself in the same sentence and my brain cannot handle this.
The press 'sanewashing' his coverage helps a lot with this. Trump can rant for an hour, making one contradictory statement after another with every breath he takes, but all that talk is then cut down into sound bites which will appeal to whatever voters want to hear in the moment.
Agreed but people going to his rallies would come out saying he said the opposite if the words he spoke.
That's because he usually did, about three seconds after he said the first thing. 😄
Yep. I've been saying just that. People like Bernie and Trump for the same, BASIC reasons. They're authentic, they speak simply, and they believe in what they're saying. People don't like being lied to. Trump may lie non-stop, but he believes what he's saying is true. They like the feeling.