Exactly. The way I see it, Trump has managed to act as a magnet for the 00’s Fox audience. The people that were indoctrinated by Fox style tv and talk radio to feel heavy emotions around certain issues that made them into a powerful voting block. Trump snatched that from the classical GOP by acting as somewhat of an avatar of that feeling, more than they could ever be because they remained, well, attached to reality somewhat. He just went and said Obama wasn’t a real US citizen and that Mexico had to pay for a wall and yeah that reaped success.
Any vague sense of a durable movement or ‘loyalty’ can go f itself because it’s still all built on lies sold to a dying generation.
Vance can’t envigorate these people against the horrible Obama (because they can’t remember why those years were so horrible). He can’t envigorate them against abortion or migration or something because that fizzled out.
So Trump managed to catch a wave and hold it past its due date, and now his hangers on are slowly seeing this. I hope the midterms come too early for them but rest assured that the extreme right in the US will come up with a new strategy for the coming decade.
Exactly. The way I see it, Trump has managed to act as a magnet for the 00’s Fox audience. The people that were indoctrinated by Fox style tv and talk radio to feel heavy emotions around certain issues that made them into a powerful voting block. Trump snatched that from the classical GOP by acting as somewhat of an avatar of that feeling, more than they could ever be because they remained, well, attached to reality somewhat. He just went and said Obama wasn’t a real US citizen and that Mexico had to pay for a wall and yeah that reaped success.
Any vague sense of a durable movement or ‘loyalty’ can go f itself because it’s still all built on lies sold to a dying generation.
Vance can’t envigorate these people against the horrible Obama (because they can’t remember why those years were so horrible). He can’t envigorate them against abortion or migration or something because that fizzled out.
So Trump managed to catch a wave and hold it past its due date, and now his hangers on are slowly seeing this. I hope the midterms come too early for them but rest assured that the extreme right in the US will come up with a new strategy for the coming decade.
So, what’s the next iteration of this playbook going to look like?