• d00phy@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Exactly my thoughts. True though it may be, denigrate the leader, not his followers. Kamala didn’t fall for that obvious trap in her Fox interview, and now Biden’s made up for that. You never call voters stupid. Especially when they very much are.

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      15 hours ago

      That’s one advantage Biden has right now: since he’s no longer running, he can speak the truth without it impacting his campaign.

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      7 hours ago

      Y’all are forgetting that this whole thing is graded on a sliding scale. If Harris did 1 of the crazy things Trump does every damn day, this wouldn’t even be a close race. So yeah, Trump gets a pass for calling American citizens “trash,” but Harris would be torched for anything remotely similar.

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      18 hours ago

      Yeah, surely a party that calls their opponents criminals, pedophiles, paid actors, and cheaters repeatedly in every rally would be making a dire mistake that would remove them from any reasonable chance of contention.

      Maybe civility politics is just a stupid illusion.