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Which I suppose brings us to the discussion of how the Democrats are capitalizing on how

fucking weird these people are by pointing out that they are super, super weird.

Once again, as I feel like is often the case,

Rolling Stone gets the prize for Best Headline

with Dims go all in on blasting Trump and MAGA as quote,

Sick Freaks who everyone hates.

Which I was amazed to hear was from a lawmaker.

Like that wasn't even just an operative, like they quote

operatives and also elected Democrats, and that one was from an elected Democrat but an operative

says that this whole sort of rhetorical shift is trying to quote shaking off the stink of when they go low we go high.

First of all that didn't work that's not how politics works and everything we've tried

up to this point to point out how awful they are for some reason

hasn't stuck and we have some theories on why it didn't stick but now it turns out

calling them weird is doing a pretty good job.

I like this approach because I do think that a lot of these views would be considered weird by most Americans and I think using that language also challenges

maybe people in the middle who don't like Trump but could possibly vote for him just you, you know what, that is a weird statement.

I never really thought about it like that.

I just kind of read it and dismissed it,

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