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    Same reason they embraced every policy that killed the Biden campaign; Median Voter Theory.

    Democrats imagine a swing voter who agrees with 80% of what the republicans say, and then adjust their own policy and messaging to appeal to that imaginary voter.

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      They are still afraid of Reagan democrats even though this isn’t 1984 in the morning, and that’s the generous explanation. The less generous explanation is that there are controlled opposition party and they threw the election on purpose

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    Because the Democratic Party leadership decided it was too effective and told Walz to back off

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    Why did we ever stop calling them weird?

    Because it has been normalised.

    By the way OP, you missed the opportunity to call them of GOP-- the shorthand for guardians of pedophiles.

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    Criminals who need to be in prison, not weird, the justice system is weird for not enforcing penalties for criminals of child sexual abuse

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    tldr “we” stopped calling them weird because it was actually working and democrats are allergic to winning. sample as that.


    see, fascists love being perceived as scary, bad, even evil… fascism is an ideology of insecurity. crying about how scary they are, how threatened you feel, how they’ll destroy everything you hold dear… that gives them power. they love that shit.

    if anything you’re pushing more pathetic insecure cunts to their side because they would rather side with the scary villains who say they will actually do shit than the people who just whine and do nothing else.

    but calling them weird really, really annoyed them. to the point that they tried to reverse uno it (“i think saying men can be women is what’s weird!”) and pretend they don’t care (“everyone’s weird in a way, right? right?”) or even outright cry that you should stop.

    it was working because the bottomless insecurity that makes fascism appealing to begin with relies on defaultism of the self. to them they must be the default and everyone else must be weird. these are people who have nothing going for them. no personality, no morals, no one who likes them. they must be superior because they’re the normal ones. that’s all that they can cling to. that’s why bigotry is easy for them. they can be superior for no reason other than existing as themselves. being white, straight, cis, having born somewhere… things they don’t have to work for. things you can’t take away from them. those things must be normal.

    once you take that away they can’t deal with that. being scary is powerful. being weird, bad weird, that’s what others are supposed to be. that’s not superior. it’s not powerful. so they hated that.

    naturally democrats realized it was a good play so they stopped it and instead insisted that you be impressed by how Liz fucking Cheney and other fucking republican demons endorsed the democratic candidate. wow thanks.

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      tldr “we” stopped calling them weird because it was actually working and democrats are allergic to winning. sample as that.

      In other words: “controlled opposition”

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    Mike Johnson needs to be on that poster. Then we need to blow it up and have ir all billboards and tv advertising 24 hours a day. I say on Faux News.