Kamala Harris gets it. Yes, we should fear Trumpābut we should also mock him mercilessly, because it drives him nuts.
Donald Trump is in free-fall. ReadĀ this descriptionĀ from SundayāsĀ Washington PostĀ of how the GOP nominee spent last week: ā[A]ides did not want a situation where he was watching the convention every night, getting angry, and then just golfing all day and stewing, according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private interactions. Trump also had grown annoyed with the news coverage that depicted him as not working as hard as his opponent, one person who talked to him said.ā
If you didnāt know that the article was about Trump and you just read it cold without knowledge of the context, you might think it was a description of parents trying to figure out how to handle an ungovernable four-year-old. So they convinced Trump to get out of Bedminster and hit the road, trading suck-ups with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In the past, TrumpĀ has calledĀ Kennedy the ādumbest memberā of the Kennedy family and a āradical left lunatic.ā KennedyĀ has calledTrump a āterrible human beingā and āprobably a sociopath.ā
Mockery is a bad thing except maybe against actual totalitarian dictators (but then maybe their danger should be shown honestly, not mocked). Mocking people overrides rational arguments.
Also they mock whole nations when those are under threat. A lot of Nazi propaganda was mockery. A lot of Azeri propaganda is mockery of Armenians (when itās Azeri-bought Russian and Ukrainian media, direct Azeri propaganda is more about threats and gloating than mockery).
A two-edged sword. In a situation where Trump canāt win an election, maybe they shouldnāt use such poisonous means.
Nah. Democratsā āmockeryā are but gentle ribbing compared to the cuntish shit Trump spews daily.
Trumpās output is just sewage, which makes it less harmful than something which is interpreted and repeated by rather intelligent people.
Letās please remember that the Republican party was responsible for a pole of actually valid ideologies (something like āRFK minus mental impairmentā), the worst effect they have is that those ideologies are not represented by anyone practically electable. What they replace them with is the second worst effect.
Mockery by its essence may very easily spill at those ideas.
Discourse in politics should be respectful. Even if itās not that now. Thatās not touching upon the possibility of degrading into a single-party system, seeing how GOP is sinking.
We tried that, and it is failing. We need to point out how incompetent and disgusting the GOP has become.
Whatās failing? Polls tell us otherwise.
And by the way, maybe they are competent. Maybe they are just fine with Dems winning the election.
Back in 2016 it was āTrump is dumb, and thereās no way Republicans would vote for himā. We mocked him while underestimating his dumbass fanbase. Now we need to directly mock Trumpās policies and attitude toward the presidency and those who support them, and not make them appear as some powerful threat (even though they are).
There was an unaccounted fanbase, yes.
What catalyzed it was them not being welcome anywhere they could blow off steam.
So maybe, again, mocking them is not the way, but on the contrary, almost a repetition of that.