https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/22/gop-anti-trump-group-launches-tv-ad-compar-ing-tru/?
A new TV ad by an anti-Trump political action committee likens former President Donald Trump to dictators through history.
The Washington Times has an extreme right editorial bias, but it's interesting they are covering this.
Even with that bias, this particular article is pretty damned factual. The only hint of bias I saw was "Mr. Trump."
Compare to reporting from The Hill.
I believe they are pointing out that, despite the fact that this is being done by a group that is trying to make Trump look bad, it will be viewed as making him look good to those on the far right. They like dictators so long as they're part of the in-group.
Thinking you're part of the GOP in group is some real magical thinking. I bet there is a real coalition of wealthy people that stand to benefit from a GOP dictatorship. I bet it is 10000-20000 people max. That leaves the millions of "temporarily disenfranchised GOP oligarchs" that are signing their rights away.
Thinking you’re part of the GOP in group is some real magical thinking.
Especially considering the Washington Times is owned by the Unification Church, which is a Korean religion with a Korean founder who is worshipped as a god.
Republicans are happy to bow and scrape for the Moonies when they need their support, but there's no chance they're giving non-white people a seat at the table as soon as they have the ability to kick them out.
I had no idea that the Moonies owned this paper. That should completely deligitimize it to just about everyone.
It should, but since they have spent decades ingratiating themselves with Republican politicians, which includes giving them huge amounts of cash, so higher-up Republicans tolerate them, and even pretend to venerate them. For now.
And I doubt the base even knows what the Unification Church is, much less that they own the Washington Times. Similarly, the Falun Gong cult owns the Epoch Times, another so-called news outlet that Republicans love. But I'm guessing most of them are completely unaware that it isn't white people they're getting their information from.
It is best for us to relate to the future that we knew and that we tried to stop it.
I don’t think any of this will work, but I would lean into comparing him to Chavez, a left wing demagogue and authoritarian. Their policies and tactics are shockingly similar in a lot of places, and the right really loves comparing DNC politicians to Chavez.
At this point I hate that gis maga fanbase are full of idiots. Basically he could tell them face to face that they are stupid for easily being scammed by him and his fsmily, and the idiots will.claim "he didn't mean it"
The 40% who will continue voting for him are so brutally stupid and warped that none of this sort of message will make a damn bit of difference to them.
Remember that neurologically, conservatives are primed for fear and anger so they lap up the negative shit that Trump and people like him feed them. They think “Mmm… yeah Hitler was an angry guy wasn’t he? I like being angry too. Yay! Let’s party!”
and the other 60% who continue to support him LIKE that he is like dictators. I don't think American conservatives or liberals are prepared to actually fight for democracy. They've been dragging their feet and giving him special treatment, when THE ENTIRE PREMISE of the country is we're all supposed to be equal. They cannot even understand the entire point of Democracy is to NOT let someone push their singular will. A wannabe dictator trying to rise should be the fucking easiest piece of shit to throw in jail, yet here we are...
Democrats (a a whole) want to enforce the rules and laws by respecting them and using them in a manner befitting the good faith actions they expect the populace to exhibit.
The GOP has been on a slow drift since the 1950’s towards not acting in good faith and doing whatever they can to bend or outright break rules that don’t suit them. This decline in behaviour accelerated with GWB and the Florida ballots, and then went off the fucking cliff when (GASP!!!) a black man ((sotto voce) Dear Lord, help us) took office.
Trump’s rise (was it the Simpsons fault for being an oracle, thus causing it?) is merely the symptom of this insanity. In one sense we are all (the world) lucky that the person channelling that lightning is so incompetent as a human. We may yet find a temporary reprieve in the race to the destruction of the American Experiment if he can be brought to heel under law.
But also to your point, yes it’s likely that the Dems need to ‘grow a set’ to get stuff done as well as to capture the imagination of those who feel they need a ‘strong leader’.
Interesting they would use the term "wake up" being GOP and all. I bet they didn't even realize.
Trump's base used to use wake up all the time, I remember seeing it a lot in 2016 online by Trump supporters. Then at some point woke got adopted as anti-democrat and shortly after wake up was dropped from their vocabulary.
If we've learned anything, it's that Drump supporters won't learn anything. This group is just a duffle bag of dick cheese. They'll embrace and baselessly defend him no matter where we/he/the media goes. RIP USA.
Give the episode, 'The Non-Nazi Bastards That Helped Hitler' by Behind The Bastards a listen. It's scary how familiar this all is.