The Danger of Falling into the Trump Trap
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Thank you. The Danger of Falling into the Trump TrapDemocrats need to figure how to tie Trump's misdeeds to the MAGA extremism message that worked in 2022
Donald Trump’s third Presidential campaign was barely two weeks old when he stumbled ass-backward into the most Donald Trump of controversies. The former President and his campaign spent Thanksgiving week trying to manage a burgeoning political crisis emanating from a dinner at Mar a Lago. As Maggie Haberman and Nick Feuer wrote in the New York Times:
You really can’t make this shit up. Trump’s embrace of America’s most prominent anti-Semite is dominating news coverage. Democrats rightfully pounced. After remaining silent for days, leading Republicans spoke out against Fuentes. Some even deigned to offer implicit criticism of Trump. Mitt Romney and Mitch McConnell were more pointed: ![]() McConnell: There is no room in the Republican Party for anti-Semitism or white supremacy. Anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view, in my judgement, are highly unlikely to ever be elected President Most Republican criticism of Trump is laughably flaccid. McConnell wouldn’t even rule out supporting Trump in 2024. It’s a bit of déjà vu. Trump is once again dominating the political conversation in ways that only he can. Based on the results of the 2022 elections, there is little doubt that Trump’s prominence is good news for Democrats. The former President is deeply unpopular. In the past, the more closely associated a candidate was with Trump, the more likely they were to lose. He is divisive, but he is also a distraction, and there is a risk in focusing so much of our political firepower on the former President... Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to The Message Box to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. A subscription gets you:
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