Subject: Re: Trump 2.0 Malfunctions in NC
And while you may "despise" what's going on in social media, democrats better understand that this isn't a level playing field anymore.
Worrying about "playing fair" is a fool's errand when you're playing against a sociopathic misfit hellbent on forming an autocracy.

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I'm not counting on a level playing field. I'm not expecting anything on TikTok or Instagram to convert a single voter still claiming to be Republican from voting for Trump. What I am counting on are enough messages reaching former Republican independents to flip them into actively voting for Biden. Some of these people might be so fed up with the idea of BOTH candidates being so old that they figure they're both dottering old fools, I might as well vote for the one closer to what I'm used to voting for. A larger share are possibly those who are well off enough to cynically evaluate the odds between a) the payoff of putting Trump back in to hopefully get another tax cut versus b) the damage of putting someone so mentally incompetent and corrupt back in power to unleash his D-team of grifters and flunkies on the entire federal government and likely never leave office again without violence.

These people may be incredibly cynical and selfish enough to consider the choice (the same choice many of them made in 2016...) but they also are likely to have enough media savvy to draw the appropriate message from a 15-20 second sound byte that doesn't sound manipulated by "the other guys" to drive home the message that Trump is truly incoherent even without Commander in Chief levels of stress at work. That chance is lost if the (valid) anti-Trump messages sound as manipulated as the (insane) pro-Trump messages.


WTH