• Optional@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    He’s gone from somebody who prided himself on his ability to have successful friends who he can brag about, to a situation where nobody wants to really be affiliated with him.

    Bullshit. The list of people who want to be affiliated with him is exceedingly long. All of them horrible people of course, but that’s not what he’s saying.

    Any number of things can happen to somebody who fails to prop up that delusion and maintain it really delicately for our president. But the reality is American people aren’t so easily deluded anymore. They know who he is.

    Straight copium. They absolutely do not know. They know prices are high. They know their talking head of choice is less enamored. That’s it. That’s IT.

    Last cycle we saw billions of dollars being poured into a PR campaign to support him and prop him up. And the normalization of Trump happened at every level of the ballot, where people felt like, maybe he’s a businessman, the economy is an issue, we should potentially trust this person.

    And even though we’ve seen since then that that has been proven wildly false and to not be a good idea, it doesn’t mean that once the Republicans spin up their machine again, they won’t have a lot of forces naturally working on their behalf again.

    Now that’s spot on.

    That said, these numbers are very bad. And I guess it’s on Democrats to make sure that those perceptions of Trump actually stick through the election, right?

    Because the media is a lost cause, right media? It’s okay, you can say it. Now the question is: how do you expect “the Democrats” to makes sure these perceptions “stick”? is it some way that isn’t through corporate media? TL;DR let’s all walk through the thresher again because we’re incapable of learning.

    We’ve looked at analysis of what the SAVE Act would do, and it would target the main ways young people register to vote, which is 70 percent of them register at the DMV or online. Young people move twice as often as other demographics and less than half of them have passports. So there was a very concerted effort to restrict the voting rights and eligibility of young people in this country.

    (And yes they also mention destroying the Voting Rights Act and gerrymandering)