Continuing this from the thread in !chapotraphouse@hexbear.net Have the Democrats finally hit on a good messaging strategy in calling Trump “weird?”
Original Post by @Philosoraptor@hexbear.net
Inspired by this post and the fact that I’m seeing a lot of regular libs start to coverage on “these guys are weird little freaks” as a messaging policy, which really seems to be bringing out the
in the far right. It’s working much better for them than all of Biden’s attempts to portray Trump as some kind of existential threat to
.
This is interesting, and only surprising in the sense that it is surprising to see the Democrats do something kind of effective for once. Fascists thrive on being seen as cool, powerful, and dangerous; those aesthetics are central to the brand. Every time Biden gave a big speech about how the future of democracy was on the line in the election, it played into that aesthetic. Every time CNN calls January 6 a “coup attempt,” it plays into that aesthetic.
Calling these people weird little freaks with weird dumb ideas and weird creepy fixations does not play into that aesthetic. It breaks the illusion that all the freaks at the RNC wearing bandages on their ears are actually normal and represent normal people. They aren’t, and they don’t. This is yet another thing that the left has known for some time now, but that libs seem to maybe be catching on to: taking these idiots seriously empowers them. Actually realizing that and using it is one of the smarter things that the Dems have done in a while.
It doesn’t help that they’re responding like this (CW: transphobia and general grossness):
Conceptualizing, drawing, and posting this shit is fucking weird, and I can’t imagine it playing at all with someone who isn’t totally brain poisoned by the internet. The more they make this kind of thing the centerpiece of their campaign, the worse things will go for them, I think.
tried this strategy once, and everyone just recoiled from him. Trump has won in spite of this tendency among his followers, but they seem to have decided now that it was because of it.
The amount of very specific details in that picture is really telling on themselves
Easy comeback to that one: “only an extremely weird person would post that image”
incredibly normal image to have access to
I like the shit and piss detail in the bed. Totally normal thing to make people get on your side.
Personally I find these drawings and other 4chan drawings funny because of how weird they are. Like, you are trying to offend me, but you sat down and took 20+ minutes drawing some racist caricature shitting and cumming or some blonde wojak being gang banged by caricatures of black guys lol. They have a whole 4chan esque board specifically for wojaks (soyjak party). This is the behavior of weird people lol
It is absolutely unhinged behavior. The fact that they think it’s a good way to score points in public discussion is like exhibit fucking A in what people mean when they say the far right is weird. Like, we have a lot of weird, insular meme culture here, but I don’t see a lot of Hexbears or leftists in general trying to use those weirdo things out in public to sway public opinion.