Laughing at Trump

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🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Democrats are lately employing a strategy against Donald Trump that he has been using effectively against his opponents for years: mockery. Where did this strategy come from? Will it remain effective? And can it backfire? We talk with the Atlantic staff writer David Graham, who was at the Democratic convention and also covers Trump. And we talk with a surprising muse for the politics of mockery: Conservative lawyer and activist George Conway has been using targeted mockery against Trump for years, with unusual success. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.4	obsession with crowd sizes. The site last week at the Democratic National Convention of
0:47.6	Barack Obama, the dignified statesman and 44th president of the United States up on stage looking down at his two
0:55.8	hands as he made a joke about Trump's ahem size. It just goes on and on and on.
1:03.0	That was a revelation to me.
1:10.0	In 2016, as Donald Trump was doling out belittling nicknames and insults,
1:17.0	Michelle Obama famously told her fellow Democrats,
1:21.0	when they go low, we go high.
1:23.9	And then in the last month, it's like a whisper campaign
1:27.0	went out among Democrats.
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1:31.4	Say on a national stage, that thing that you've been saying to your friends, Michelle?
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