• Daft_ish@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Man, if the media was worth a damn it could absolutely bury Trump in negative campaign ads. It’s one thing to run a single valid negative campaign ad. With Trump you could collect them like fucking pokemon.

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      11 months ago

      That’s the problem though. His core supporters define themselves by who they oppose, so anything negative said about him is seen as an attack and becomes fuel for the hate machine

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        11 months ago

        The hate machine runs on unicorns and rainbows. I’m not going around chasing unicorns and cursing at the sky.