When the tactic is to bombard you with a barrage of bizarre batshittery, you RECOGNISE it as a tactic, and stop playing Whack-A-Mole. You sift through the lunacies and choose the actions that ought to move the needle. If someone doesn’t know by now what the public does & doesn’t care about, Jesus.
HAD this particular pardon been hammered on by the media INCESSANTLY, HAD it been made widely known to the vast majority of Americans (it absolutely was NOT), it WOULD have had an effect.
You drop carefully aimed payloads of SPECIFIC information on them. Instead, they were hit with birdshot. “Thirty-six scandals - ugh. I’m so over it.”
You keep saying the media DID talk about these things. YES. They did. For a fucking MINUTE. Like they talked about EVERY insane, appalling thing he’s done. It is NOT the right approach.