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Honestly, although I don't agree with everything the article says, it does have a very good point. Trump won in 2016 due to populism, on the belief that the Am
by NickC25 3y ago
Honestly, although I don't agree with everything the article says, it does have a very good point.
Trump won in 2016 due to populism, on the belief that the American male was forgotten and left behind. As too, was rural America.
The left could easily win election after election by coming out and saying "yeah, we've done a lot for women, for people of color, for sexual minorities, etc...but here's a bunch of things we're doing for men, for the lower class, for the middle class, for rural America. Feminism is great, and masculinity is great too.".
If you get out in front of the messaging, and control it, right wing shock-jock culture warriors have no ammo. The GOP has won lots of elections simply because their media messaging is on point, consistent as hell, and repetitive. The left has ignored all their successful tactics instead of copying them, for some odd reason. I don't quite get it.
- mcphage 3y ago> If you get out in front of the messaging, and control it, right wing shock-jock culture warriors have no ammo. The GOP has won lots of elections simply because their media messaging is on point, consistent as hell, and repetitive. I don't think those 2 points match up. You can get out in front of the messaging but you will not deprive right wing shock jock culture warriors of ammo. As you say, their messaging is consistent and repetitive, and it doesn't really matter if it's true or counteracted by reality. It'll get repeated often enough that it's assumed to be true. (For a tiny example, consider the "Sleepy Joe" meme. It has been clearly disproven by anybody paying attention to the last few years, but nevertheless it keeps getting trotted out as if it were obviously true).
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