No. of Recommendations: 16
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance insisted that he and Trump are talking about policy, but he added that "we’d much rather have an American president who is who he is" and "who’s willing to offend us" and "lets the American people see exactly who he is."
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This seems to be a common theme in the Republican Party nationwide as they more aggressively target ever-more simplistic (pronounced "stooo-pid") voters.
One of the Republican candidates for Governor in Missouri ran ads the day before the August primary that ended a flurry of fear-mongering, hate-inspired drivel with this rhetorical flourish:
"They'll call us racist... sexist... That's how we'll know we're right."
A week earlier, he ran an ad featuring him standing next to another man playing the role of a Spanish translator as he outlined his plan for deporting all illegal aliens and the "translator" reacted with suprise and fear.
That's the intellectual litmus test Repuplican leaders apply to their own communication and thinking. If I'm being called a racist and a sexist, I must be doing something right.
That candidate, Bill Eigel, LOST that primary for Governor, coming in second in a three-way contest that ended up 40/33/23 with five other further-fringe candidates splitting the last six percent.
Just in today's news on August 15, the Trump campaign announced it has hired Corey Landowski to help out with the campaign. Landowski was along for some of the ride during the Trump 2016 campaign until he was bumped out in a power struggle with Paul Manafort, who then left the campaign on August 19, 2016 when he became, um, preoccupied with other criminal matters related to some Russians and millions of dollars. For those with short memories, Landowski would appear to be a very on-message re-hire for Trump, if you want to focus on communicating to women that aggression in professional / fundraiser settings is totally cool.
The current paralysis in the Trump campaign and its inability to react in any way that is different than the ways creating the current downdraft is exactly the consequence one should expect from a team so insular and toxic towards reality. No one with a grasp on reality wants to spend one second in their presence so there are no new ideas reaching the limited number of brain cells within the hive. This is actually a point every Democrat in every contest needs to make with voters. The Republicans may be promising Disneyland forever but at some point, you're going to have to leave the parking lot and come home to reality. And when you do, EVERY PROBLEM you had before attempting to ride Space Mountain for four years before giving up will have gotten worse by voting for the Republicans who denied reality the entire time.
WTH
