President Biden’s reelection campaign has dubbed former President Trump “Broke Don,” taking a strategy out of Trump’s playbook that his political rivals know all too well.
Trump has used nicknames — from “Little Marco” to “Crooked Hillary” to “Lyin’ Ted” — to put down a variety of opponents. For much of 2020, Biden’s moniker, courtesy of Trump, was “Sleepy Joe.”
Now, the Biden team is seeking to turn the tables in attempting to make one stick to Trump while it worked this week to highlight the former president’s lagging fundraising numbers in the 2024 race.
I know I’m in the minority on this but I’ve always felt like Trump truly won when we started adopting his shithead name-calling habits.
Its doesn’t accomplish anything and reduces every argument to finger pointing and smirking.
He’s so much better at it than anyone else cause his supporters don’t care what he does and the rest of us aren’t that beholden to a single politician to proselytize their every word
Namecalling appeals to morons who have trouble parsing anything more complex.
Morons are a non-negligible proportion of the US electorate.
Yeah, just look at all the people on lemmy and reddit who focus on Trump’s skin color instead of his myriad crimes, piss poor performance as president, and attempted coup.
Namecalling as a strategy and namecalling as a means of releasing pent-up frustration are two different things, I’d argue.
Hell, I’d even put namecalling as provocation as different from namecalling as a strategy for garnering support.
it’s just so disappointing that the GOP literally has no standards, while the Dems get called out for literally everything they do. Those criticisms can fuck off. The fascists are at your doorstep, you fools.
God forbid the party whose entire platform is “at least we’re not the Republicans” be held to a higher standard than the republicans
The standard of “don’t hurl childish insults at bad people” isn’t a standard I care terribly much about. Neither the name calling nor the pearl clutching are important in any way.
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Unfortunately this is where the undecideds of our country are. Imagine not knowing who you’d vote for this year.