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https://www.gq.com/story/how-dem…
How the Democrats Can Keep the Momentum Going
There's an easy way to avoid screwing this all up, writes Drew Magary.
Excerpt:
I worked in advertising for a decade and every assignment came with a strategic brief that laid out what the ad had to say. Based off that brief, we could usually tell if an ad was gonna fail even before we’d thought of anything. That’s because if a brief made us say EVERYTHING in an ad, we were fucked. You get seven words for a billboard. You get 60 seconds for a radio ad. You get 30 seconds for a TV, if you’re lucky. There isn’t enough time or space to say that your product does 97 different things. You get one thing. Try to push any more than that one thing, and you are fucked.
Politics, so reliant on advertising, is no different. One of the reason Democrats have a hard time bringing down Trump—who seems so EASY to destroy—is because he does so much awful shit on a daily basis that it’s hard to zero in on one single awful thing and hammer him on it. Trump himself, almost certainly by accident, was VERY good at choosing a message and beating it into the fucking ground until it was gospel. He had one shitty slogan (MAGA!), one shitty promise (A WALL!), and one shitty subtext for it all (RACISM!). If he angered the opposition in the process of delivering the message, all the better. Trump is a simple dope whose simplicity did him wonders on the campaign trail, enough to beat (CROOKED!) Hillary Clinton, who out of either optimism or foolishness, tried at all times to be all things to all people.
- This is a spot-on analysis of Trumps dumbed down tactic.kona
- Trump's Reverend growing up was Norman Vincent Peale, who coined the phrase / book, The Power of Positive Thinking. Now you know.robotron3k
- Yes yes, the power of positive thinking created trump, not the 1 million dollar (small 'loan') his daddy gave him to start his company. asshatkona
- so I guess the author liked his DRAIN THE SCHWAMP slogan. And was pleased with his promises for J-O-B-S.********
- Seeing as how the author died in 1993 it's doubtful he liked Trumps idea. Next time, try and do a little research before vomiting your drivel.kona
- It was actually a $14m loan.formed