There's A Devious Way To Help Get Donald Trump Out Of Office

[Celerity]

It's a highly effective and proven tactic that will make space for Joe Biden to smash Trump into oblivion in November.

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/theres-a-devious-way-to-help-get

By all accounts, Donald Trump’s bid for re-election in 2020 is in very, very serious trouble. So much trouble in fact, that Trump is openly talking about Biden becoming the next President, and may even be mulling quitting the race altogether if things do not turn around. His poll numbers are in the toilet and getting worse, the Coronavirus pandemic is surging under his leadership (again), and most sensible economists are predicting a prolonged recession with severe job losses. This is not a great record to be running on four months out from an election. There are several steps Trump needs to take to turn things around:



The problem is, Trump is utterly incapable of doing any of the above. He won’t wear a mask because he believes it is a sign of weakness. He won’t take the Coronavirus seriously because he views the economy as his key to victory and the pandemic a minor inconvenience he can pretend isn’t happening. He won’t stop engaging in conspiracy theories because his supporters love it, and he cannot stay on message because of his legendary inability to pay attention to anything for more than a few seconds at a time. Thus his campaign team is horrified about his re-election prospects.

A recent article in Politico laid bare just how bad things are in Trumpland. The article notably reported on his advisors desperate attempts to get him to focus on fighting Biden rather than everyone else: Trump advisers acknowledge that tearing down Biden will require a level of discipline he isn’t demonstrating. They have pleaded with Trump — who has used his Twitter account to vilify critics from MSNBC host Joe Scarborough to former National Security Adviser John Bolton — to stop focusing on slights that mean little to voters. Biden's low-profile during the pandemic has made it that much harder for Trump to land a punch, his advisers said. And this where the public comes in. Trump’s petty vindictiveness and non-existent attention span means he can be very easily thrown off course. The Never Trump Republicans Rick Wilson and George Conway founded the Lincoln Project to do exactly this. They have been creating astonishingly effective viral videos attacking Trump on a whole host of issues designed specifically to annoy Trump. They have questioned his health, accused him of being a traitor, and called him a racist — and they have made absolutely sure he sees their videos:

In the past few months, the Lincoln Project — a PAC with not much funding, as far as PACs go — has successfully established itself as a squatter in Trump’s mental space, thanks to several factors: members each boasting hundreds of thousands of social media followers, rapidly cut ads that respond to current events and a single-minded focus on buying airtime wherever Trump is most likely to be bingeing cable news that day, whether it’s the D.C. market or his golf courses across the country. And every time Trump freaks out — or every time the media covers his freakout — the Lincoln Project scores an incalculable amount of earned media, and millions of views online to boot. If regular Americans help amplify these efforts by forcing Trump to engage with these ads or any other celebrity/media figure’s negative comments about him, Trump will respond. And the more he responds, the less Joe Biden needs to spend time portraying him as a dangerously incompetent buffoon, and the more he can focus on campaigning and spreading a positive message for his Presidency. In other words, the job of every concerned American citizen is to now troll Trump at every given opportunity.

If you are not particularly good at trolling, then find those who are, spread their message or help fund their efforts. How low do you want to go? Given this is an all out emergency, pretty much everything is fair game. From his hairpiece to his bone spurs, marriage to Melania and weird relationship with his daughter, no topic should be taboo when spreading rumors and innuendo about the president on social media. Reservations should made at Trump events you have no intention of going to in order to deflate his crown size, and if anyone wants to make another Trump blimp, it should get funded immediately and flown over (or near) the White House. Celebrities, particularly ones Trump has singled out before, should coordinate attacks and get in as many spats with the president as possible. This might appear to be childish — and to a degree it is — but one has to remember who we are dealing with here. Trump is a child, and the more childish he becomes, the less likely he is to be re-elected. You are not trolling Trump for fun, but for the sake of American democracy and the health of the entire planet. So go forth and make the president’s life miserable.

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