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Idk, that strategy can definitely backfire. I'm sure significant chunks of the GOP regretted backing the 'useful idiot' Trump once he grew too powerful to control. Maybe what we should do with their conspiracy theorists, grifters and propagandists, is starve them of attention?
Was it though? Was Biden too pure? Or are you saying that this all comes down to "PC culture"?
I really fear this angle. "we can use her" will effectively sane-wash this person and make her seem more reasonable to the less informed voters. I don't want a MTG presidency.
Never mind the GOP. Hillary fucking Clinton spent millions of dollars promoting Trump in the run up to the 2016 election, because she wanted to make the Republicans look more radical and dangerous, and Trump was the most radical, dangerous candidate in the race.
Thanks, Hillary. Good call.
I guess you're referring to this?
Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign (Wikipedia):
Interestingly, the title of the mentioned AP article is "Clinton's 'nasty' Trump ads are mostly his own words" - it doesn't criticize the campaign's choice at all.
That is not something we can control. That's in them, not us.
He was too "safe" for sure. The left rarely is willing to get it's hands dirty. The right always is. They will use anything when it's useful to them, no matter how dirty it may be. If there's a tool that's useful to us, we need to be willing to pick it up.
Now, this all should be couched in language like "if the crazy space lazer lady understood this, you should be able to." It should always be reminding them she's insane, just that they must be too if she's this far ahead of them.