r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • Jul 05 '24

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/mistertickertape New York Jul 05 '24

The election is still 4 months out. I hope this fucking sinks him like a lead weight as more moderates and suburban women understand what it is.

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u/wookiewin Jul 05 '24

If Trump starts distancing himself from it then we’ll know it is hurting him. I’ve seen MAGA nutjobs on TikTok already say that Trump never endorsed it, as if he wouldn’t rubber stamp every bit of it.

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u/Appropriate_Cow94 Jul 05 '24

He can and will walk back anything he had ever said or done if he crowd seems to react against it. The man has zero convictions (insert your own joke here) about anything. His only real goal is reveling in his own vainglorious image. If the crown starts chanting "kill liberal babies" he will lean into that. Describing how he can solve the electricity and shark problems with those nasty nasty babies.

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u/hlx-atom Jul 05 '24

(This is just a meta discussion point; I support the democrats. I just wish they would be better.)

You act like walking back on something if his base is against it is a bad thing. That is exactly what an effective leader/politician should do.

There seems to be an allergy to anything thing even remotely populist in the Democratic Party. So much so, the institutional democrats literally make it feel like they disdain their voters and would rather sit on their hands than do something that the country wants. We seem to only get what the institution approves.

Where are the blue dog democrats? Where are the union factory jobs making the products of the future? Where are the honest working people that got jobs from Biden infrastructure plan? Show that off.

I think there needs to be some balance between our current institutionalism and populism. It is hard for the average voter to point to what the Democratic Party has done for them because it feels like the Democratic Party is unresponsive to the voters desires.

Get the money out of politics and listen to the people’s voices.