Why would they stop? That’s been the most effective attack they’ve had in a long time! Especially because it’s true, and I think the Republicans know it on some level.

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    Not only did they get rid of it, the guy that was the biggest target of it: JD Vance, was basically treated like an old pal by Tim Walz at the VP debate. Instead of taking Vance’s obvious repulsiveness and highlighting it, Walz went into the debate and was basically like “look, he’s not Trump so we can be reasonable about things,” and that was about the time the party also stopped using “weird” in general. Probably related, but can’t say for sure.

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    Democratic party guide to campaigning

    When your polls are stonks-up get rid of whoever it is that’s advising you and bring in some new people from failed campaigns
    When your polls are stonks-down don’t change what you’re doing! That will make you look weak! Especially now that you just changed advisors!

    Remember 99% of politicians stop supporting genocide right as it becomes popular sopranos-poker

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    They did, apparently new conservative advisors advised them to stop using it because it might alienate white suburbanites. Its why we’ve seen the vibe shift after the Walz pick. They decided to court white suburbanites and never trump republicans rather than their natural base. The Democrats love to lose folks.

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      After trump, the Republicans will find someone more palatable to run. Those white suburbanites they’ve been working so hard to court will go right back.

      In the end they’ll only alienate more POC.

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      new conservative advisors

      The UK Labor Party narrowly won an election they should’ve taken in a landslide and sent over all their consultants to ‘help’ Kamabla, and they’re the ones who got them off the weird shit.

      Which the ‘weird’ thing had annoying ableist undertones but it was also working a lot better than whatever they’re doing now.

      Oh well, death to amerikkka, nice to see them eating shit with the new strat, the genocidal pain pigs they are.

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      “Wow everything is going great, tell you what let’s bring on some new advisors and completely change course” - Rational, sane, smart thing to do
      “Wow everything is going to shit, tell you what let’s continue to listen to these new advisors we brought on and not listen to the people we listened to when everything was going great.” - Also rational sane and a very smart move.

      Dems have the best political instincts!

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      Now some of the “bipartisanship” makes sense. Republicans just want to ditch Trump for that more competent fascist and then abandon Harris in 2028. Dems narrowly squeeze out a win and then the more competent fascist and other fash cronies win big time in 2028 as democrats completely let their guard down.

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    If you pivot to “I will place Republicans in my cabinet” then you also need to stop calling Republicans weird.

    It’s been wild watching the campaign more or less retrace Clinton’s losing strategy.

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    Why would they stop?

    Dems started doing bipartisant shit again so they couldnt keep doing the attacks anymore

    But hey, now you have Dick Cheney

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      Meanwhile all the libs are cheering as if this was a good thing because unity or something. Yeah nah if Dick Cheney likes you you’ve done something wrong.

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          waiting for the day that democrats look upon cheney’s as democratic heros like they do with obama; or clinton; or carter; or roosevelt; etc.

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              i was alive an active during the reagan years and i think this one’s worse because the bad stuff that didn’t come from the top in that period originated from a place of genuine ignorance. the internet makes genuine ignorance impossible so now all the bad stuff comes from a place of intention through willful ignorance and it think that’s worse.

              afterall believing that a group show be looked down upon because that how you’re taught to be behave is one thing and fixable with a little bit of knowledge; but believing that those people should be denigrated because they deserve it is both an entirely different scenario and also unfixable w/o them letting you into their psyche.

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    It was too effective. If they raised thr bar that much the GOP could poke one of their obvious weak spots. They can both only stand up because they agree not to fight too hard

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    They got “lol tumblr SJW” PTSD from the last time they ever fought back against racists and went back to ring-kissing republicans…who still call them tumblr SJWs.

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    I remember hearing about it on some podcast around a week ago. They brought on a strategist from either Biden 2020 or Clinton 2016 who thought that “weird” was running a negative attack campaign. It doesn’t match the vibes of Joy Reich where you can only do wholesome things like advocate for genocide.

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    One of the most foundational pillars of American national mythology is the notion of “loyal opposition,” that politics is about compromise, not about conflict. At the end of the day, the Republican Party must always be treated as a legitimate institution, so this rhetoric was abandoned.