(August 26, 2024 at 1:10 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(August 26, 2024 at 12:41 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: And yet, Trump’s handlers - you know, those people actually IN the campaign - are losing their minds over Trump’s incessant name calling, pleading with him to stay on policy.
Boru
Rock and a hard place. No one likes their policies, not even magats, but the donalds cult of personality is based on donald being donald unfiltered. When we normies see "character" we think "good character". That's not what the magats see or judge on. They mean the donald could better position himself if he had the discipline to cultivate loyalist character. A list of things other people might call bad but the afflicted consider good.
He’s not going to lose the MAGAt no matter what he does. Either talking about policy or hurling epithets makes no difference to his base.
Trouble is, he can’t win this with just his base - he needs independents and non-MAGA Republicans (at a minimum), the very people have had enough of his insulting bombast. So, on balance, he’d have a better shot sticking to a policy-based script. Fortunately, he seems unable to do that.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
