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Here was how The New York Times put it:
Er. Where is this "broadly appealing message and messenger for countering Trump" that has been so toiled over?
This is exactly the kind of behavior I want to see from Democrats. A deeply unserious person like Donald Trump deserves to be heckled like the bad fucking joke he is.
These fucking Democrats are watching a dude successfully lie and bully his way into the presidency (not to mention that same playbook get adopted by the GOP in general) then think the answer is to be nice?
Newsflash, the voters on the other side aren't going to be swayed by a "broadly appealing message," I'd say an insignificant number of people could even be swayed to switch voting from the GOP / MAGA bastards over to the Dem sonofabitches anyways. So galvanized the troops, motivate people to vote and stop pussyfooting around.
Adopt the playbook that keeps working for your enemy, tweak it some sure, but stop thinking a milquetoast "we're the nice guys" campaign will ever work. It's failed so many times now, maybe learn a lesson?
Yeah how's being broadly appealing working out?
Great for the fascists!