• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    I’ve reflected on it for some time, I agree that getting overconfident will be the Democrat’s downfall but we also shouldn’t underestimate the new meme energy that is being infused into the campaign, and particularly that is making the Trump campaign squirm so hard.

    My hot take is that “Weird” will keep working as long as it keeps bothering Trump and the GOP, which could be right up to the election.

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      5 months ago

      Yes, Trump’s campaign is contributing to the effectiveness of the “weird” attack by very obviously allowing themselves to be triggered by it. Running counter-ads where they try to co-opt “weird” and use it to describe the Democrats is a massive fail on their part.

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        5 months ago

        Trump can’t handle it at all. When asked about it he said the weird memes were about JD Vance not him. He cannot accept being called weird. At all. That’s why it will continue to work.