RE: WikiLeaks publishes searchable database of almost 20,000 emails from DNC.
July 27, 2016 at 1:55 pm
(This post was last modified: July 27, 2016 at 1:56 pm by henryp.)
The left can't capitalize on Trumps screwups, because they can't resist hyperbolizing.
For months during the primaries, everybody was saying "Trumps just like Hitler" on the facebook. But a reasonable person doesn't think Trump is ever going to try to invade Canada and Mexico, and then kill 20 million people. That's why Hitler was Hitler. Not because of an immigration proposal rooted lightly in a combination of stereotyping and common sense.
My intuition says making people reasonably side with Trump by exaggerating his positions that you could probably get people to disagree with without exaggerating has been a pretty big mistake.
For months during the primaries, everybody was saying "Trumps just like Hitler" on the facebook. But a reasonable person doesn't think Trump is ever going to try to invade Canada and Mexico, and then kill 20 million people. That's why Hitler was Hitler. Not because of an immigration proposal rooted lightly in a combination of stereotyping and common sense.
My intuition says making people reasonably side with Trump by exaggerating his positions that you could probably get people to disagree with without exaggerating has been a pretty big mistake.
