And the weird thing is, they keep on focusing on “winning back” white workers instead of going after voters who are demoralized!
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Fight fire with fire. Open with a lie, “I watched the Trump piss tapes last night… yes, plural. I threw up twice, but I figured I needed to see who I’m dealing with tonight.” That’ll put him right off guard, because he won’t know it’s false. The candidate can proceed to ask Trump directly to explain how on earth he did that? Unconvincing bluster and his facial expression during the opening volley will be on TV repeating ad-nauseum.
Given the voters’ gnat-like attention-span, that’s exactly what the candidate needs to win… not some actual debate-winning methodology; just stupid sound bites and vine-length reaction clips. Know your damn audience or fail… Trump already knows the audience, and that’s why he won.
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Feels true.
Won’t matter still.
Make it a gay affair, and all of a sudden they require substantive proof. Notarized documents.
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Why not? I mean… she beat him in the election, last time I checked. Typing in all caps doesn’t change that.
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Trump’s supporters are stacked in a pyramid of levels of support. I’m seeing and hearing anecdotals that indicate previously fervent supporters are now wobbling following his recent rants and attacks. People taking down Trump signs and admitting to “making mistakes in the past” kind of thing.
He may have screwed the pooch for the Nazi / NKVD overclass.
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Seriously? Hillary Hate, still? I won’t capitalize it, but by your logic, anyone who lost to Hillary the primaries (and doesn’t own a comb) shouldnt be in the running in 2020 because he couldnt even get the nomination to challenge Trump.
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This debate stand-in makes some good points, but I’m not hopeful. Trump is just so fucking good at wallowing in the mud. He’s been doing it his entire life. He will do the backstroke in a cesspool of his own filth and take no collateral damage. If his opponent gets a speck of dust on their lapel, the press goes nuts.
And Trump wont sit still if you try to start calling him on his lies. He will react. You need multiple strategies for all the different ways he will act out in response to your initial strategy. (eg, Hillary certainly wasn’t prepared for Trump’s menacing/hovering behavior.) And if all you’re doing is countering him, you’ve still lost, because he’s made the debate about himself and what he’s saying.
But I think the using the stand-in (along with a team of clinical psychologists) is a good idea. Dealing with Trump as a person or as a candidate is a mistake. He is a pathology.
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Out of curiosity, did many of them state their support because Trump was “telling it like it is”?
While crossing the western half US near the border in 2015 on a bicycle trek, I ran into a lot of that, and really wonder how many of them are still feeling the same today.
No malice intended, I’d just like to be a fly on the wall.
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Next up the PM of Czechoslovakia will tell us how to appease Hitler and avoid a war
No malice inferred! This is BB, and you’ve been around a good long while! Hello, friend!
I mostly know people in NYC, LA, SF. But the Twitterz is carrying more and more messages like “I live in Austin and my neighbour took down his Trump sign”.
The association I think at first was indeed “He’s tough and a successful businessman so …”, and the more they were attacked, the more they internally reinforced their buttresses. But now the association with racism, bigotry, plain old robbery, and simply that they see the 1% are even richer while the US in general has either slid back or not changed … etc.
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Let’s pretend, just for the sake of argument, that this is true. What role did “the guy who played Trump in practice debates” have in forming Clinton’s overall campaign strategy? And what parts of his advice do you take exception to?
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You could try walking behind him and just, y’know, looming like an evil, mirror-universe manatee while he’s speaking. That’s what he does:
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or it means you are without compassion or empathy - which leads to the same conclusion - then screw you.
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What kind of idiot would, at this point in the current political and functional dumpster fire, be undecided about whether they want to keep the current occupant of the White House in office or not?
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Hate? Definitely not. As I said, I supported her with time & money, and voted for her eagerly. I think she would have been a fine to decent President.
But I am not willing to close my eyes to the fact that her campaign was terrible. For a good example, her campaign knew she was in trouble in Michigan and Wisconsin. The numbers were not looking good for a couple months before the election, and these states were key to her firewall strategy. And what did Podesta et al do in response to that situation? They doubled down on ignoring the problem, and insisted that everything would be fine in the end.
[Arrested Development narrator voice]: It was not fine in the end.
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Which is why attitude is Vote for the Democrat, but at no point believe that they are your ally.
No Democrat will do enough to fix things without constant motivation from the left. On the other hand Republicans will never have any motivation to fix things until guillotines are being built outside the Capitol and the White House. We have a hard four years ahead of us either way, but one choice is clearly easier for everyone.
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Fix the system, not the campaign.
Hey, how about both? We should probably do both. Also, not sure how the Clinton team was gonna fix the system while campaigning for President. Fixing the system seems like something someone in a high office should tackle. Like, say, the highest office in the land? If you see something that’s broken, and are vying for a position from which you can fix it, do you ignore the brokenness and act like it’s not there, offering no counter to its influence, or do you compensate for its flaws and use the pathetic omnishambles to foster your success? Why are you so unwilling to admit that Clinton’s campaign did anything wrong?
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An odd comparison, because unlike the PM of Czechoslovakia, Hillary actually beat her opponent in the general election. If I was looking for advice on how to similarly beat him in debates, the guy whose entire job was researching how to beat him in debates would seem to be a pretty good resource.
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