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"Republicans Are Weird" - Comment #6,326,472

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Nox Lucis

Jul 29, 2024 at 02:54PM EDT

So much of politics is the battle to control the narrative. For decades a core part of Republican narratives has been that they represent normal/average/"real" Americans against abnormal/degenerate/outside forces. Just when they most struggle to hold onto that narrative this thing takes a swing at it.
It's a little thing, but if this counter-narrative takes off it could have real rhetorical potential.

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VinchVolt

Jul 29, 2024 at 03:16PM EDT in reply to Nox Lucis

It's easy to forget in an age of heightened polarization how strongly elections in America are driven by moderates. They're the ones who make up the majority of the population, and they're the ones that political campaigning must target in order to succeed. It's where Nixon's concept of the "silent majority" came from in 1968, and this does indeed seem like a prime opportunity to flip that on its head.