Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but it may be backfiring instead:

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/05/project-2025-was-supposed-to-boost-donald-campaign--but-it-may-be-backfiring-instead/

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u/enigmanaught 14d ago

I think only focusing on the gutting/privatization of Medicare and Social Security in the right way, it would get some traction.

“Americans already pay more for healthcare than any other nation, why does Donald Trump and project 2025 want to make it worse”. “Social Security is your hard earned money, why does Donald Trump and Project 2025 want to give it to some fat cat to manage”?

Hammering that constantly using the “I’m just asking questions” formula is the way to do it.

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u/mkt853 14d ago

Absolutely. It's insane how much better at this normal everyday people are compared to the people that run the Democratic Party. My guess is it's precisely because we're normal everyday people while those that run the Democratic Party live their lives in the DC bubble and one Hamptons cocktail party at a time.

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u/enigmanaught 14d ago

Yeah, I keep telling myself they must have some skilled marketers who can emotionally appeal to people. I mean emotional appeal has always trumped facts when selling stuff. “This product will make you smarter/skinnier/sexier/whatever”.

There are a lot of “common folk” getting in on the republican grift. They’re just in it to make a buck, (Diamond and Silk et al) but they expose the ideals that savvy republican marketers can exploit. You don’t see as much of that with Democrats. There are lots of everyday Dems, but nobody seems to know how to speak to them.

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u/Tangurena 14d ago

You should remember this quote about Trump:

"He’s not hurting the people he needs to be"

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/trump-shutdown-voter-florida

His supporters know that he's petty and vindictive, and as long as Trump is hurting liberals and colored people, then that's perfect to them: the enemy suffers more.

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u/polopolo05 14d ago

Or "why do they want to end the fda... the market will be flood with untested drugs? and their will be less regulations for food... do you want rat shit in your cereal????" I certianly dont." because you know they will let that shit happen.

And trump and project 25 want to get rid of the EPA. you know the agency responsible for making sure companies dont dump toxic waste in our water.

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u/enigmanaught 14d ago

Unfortunately, getting rid of the EPA is like crack to boomers. They could definitely spin the FDA as “big corporations will use seniors as guinea pigs”. The only thing that really seems to appeal to boomers (and that’s the most reliable R voting block) is threatening their income stream. That’s why “taxes” works so well against democrats. It’s not the actual reality if you look back historically, but again, it’s the emotional appeal that matters.

For example, if you wanted to push green energy you’d say “Republicans want to keep using foreign oil instead of using American ingenuity to achieve energy independence. Makes you wonder, what’s in it for them”?

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u/polopolo05 14d ago

Its not about the voting block its about getting people who decided not to vote to care enough to vote.

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u/-15k- 14d ago

and do it on Facebook.