All he has to do is
Well, you get what you pay for, or what you shilled for. Republicans are unhappy that Trump is not deploying substantive arguments in his campaign to get back in the White House. This is silly, because Trump doesn’t do substantive; Trump has never done substantive. Trump wouldn’t know substantive if it bit him on the ass.
The way Republicans see it, it should not be hard for Mr. Trump to pivot from President Biden to this new Democratic ticket. All he has to do is hammer Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz for things they have said and done, to paint them as out-of-step from most Americans, on everything including policing, immigration and transgender policies.
But then he would have to know something about policing, immigration, and transwhatnow?
But lately Mr. Trump keeps getting tangled up in distractions of his own making. He has gone on tangents about Ms. Harris’s biracial identity. He has picked fights with fellow Republicans. He has fantasized that Mr. Biden might somehow snatch back the nomination.
Many in Mr. Trump’s party find this all to be counterproductive, to say the least.
Well who did they think Trump was? A guy who engages with serious issues?
Mr. Trump started to veer off message one week ago, when he questioned Ms. Harris’s identity as a Black woman before a roomful of Black journalists at a conference in Chicago. “He’s more comfortable with personality-driven attacks, rather than issue-driven attacks,” said Neil Newhouse, a Republican pollster.
Of course he is, because he’s lazy and stupid. Is this news to Republicans? Come on.
At times, it seems as though Mr. Trump has not even accepted his new political reality — that he is no longer in a race against Mr. Biden. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump wondered aloud in a post on Truth Social if there were any chance that Mr. Biden “CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination.”
Yeah, and then Buzz Lightyear throws a nukular weapon at them and everybody laughs and the movie ends.
Trump the schoolyard bully. His rhetoric is mostly ad hominem, and when it’s not, it’s fabricated, unclear, and agitational. I think he perfected this shtick during his time in “pro” wrestling. If he does have more than a rudimentary understanding of the issues, it sure doesn’t show. What it does show is his contempt.
Republicans are concerned that Donny isn’t doing substantive, as though his focus (sic) on the trivial and the personal is a trait that appeared overnight, and ethics watchdogs are starting to suspect that his politics (sic, again) might possibly begin to be influenced by personal financial gains. Where have these people been for the last decade?
Yep, he’s pricing four memberships to his Mar a Lago golf club at a million bucks apiece.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/05/trump-mar-a-lago-membership-price-hike
Thanks for that! I forgot that you were the source (had looked at other things in the meantime, attention span of a flea, etc).
If donny did do substantive, and he concentrated on just ‘trans’ care and got the republicans to shut up about the rest, I think he’d win hands down. Because the american public would actually get to see major politicians discussing what a woman is. I don’t think they’d like what they would see in the democrats.
But I’m british so my knowledge of the US is all second hand:)
It might be a more effective approach but the trans thing is just not a top issue for most people. It is something potent to bring up when “Republicans are weird” comes up, but a lot of it slots fairly neatly into a bodily autonomy/mind your own business mindset. Contrast with immigration or inflation.