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matt819

(10,749 posts)
1. No, they won't
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 01:45 PM
Feb 2020

Not unless we keep reminding them of this in TV ads, print, and online. Using words and ideas they can understand. Likening this sham to 1984 means nothing to them. Tell them the story in ways that resonate with them as lower middle class people. As farmers. As small town residents. As Christians.

Sure, that Budweiser ad was good. Diverse Americans. That may work selling beer. It probably won't work selling fearful white voters on a Democratic field consisting of a Jew, a couple of women, a billionaire, a long-time politician, a gay guy, and a Chinese guy.

This is going to take a strong, smart, concerted effort.

The ad Bill Maher showed what's possible.

The Lincoln Project ads are great. But they need to come out literally every day, targetted well, consistent. In the same way that the Russians used micro-targetting in 2016, so does the Lincoln project need to do the same today. Get them to be so prevalent that the MSM covers them as a news event. They need to be everywhere. FB is not going to go away. Let's use it better than the Russians. And not only against Trump. McConnell, Collins, Murkowski, Booker, Portman, et al. Every single day. I call on Tom Steyer, Mike Bloomberg, and other less visible Democratic billionaires to fund this endeavor.

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