You know, theoretically, the Traitors are just teeing it right up for the Democrats, message-wise
To me, it's hard to imagine a simpler message that resonates stronger with people across the board than one emphasizing the fundamentals of democracy and government that belongs to the people themselves. Traitor Trump believes our government belongs to him and treats it as such, using its machinery to protect himself, not our country. I.e., he is attempting to establish a dictatorship and to destroy the very foundations of our democracy itself. There are countless examples of him doing and saying things that could be raised in a hypothetical stump-speech.
The "upside" of having such terrible ideas (or lack thereof- these people don't have any actual principles or beliefs) in power is the ease of fomenting opposition using a positive message that people can quite easily get behind- messages that they are already familiar with and have positive associations with, having already been introduced to them in their history classes. The Democrats could literally just open up a history book and use the powerful words and brilliant ideas of the Enlightenment, cultivated by the founders and greatest leaders of our country, to campaign and inspire voters to get our there and do their duty for their country. A Democratic candidate literally could regularly be quoting Abraham Lincoln, the Federalist Papers, and Thomas Hobbes as an effective, very much on-point speech. Basically, put a civics class into a stump speech, and talk about things like:
Humans' natural right to govern themselves, and a government's power being based on the consent of the people
Our mandate that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”
The Republican's long-time strategy of destroying our social contract
Objectivity, the existence of real truth, and the Scientific Method's role in creating the technological society and quality of life we have today
The nature of civil service, the duty to serve our country taken on by federal employees, and the nature of the oath taken by some to support and defend the Constitution
A corrupted, retaliatory government, freedom of the press and political speech, and the protections of the 1st Amendment; the nature of freedom itself
The relevant ideas go on and on. Traitor Trump is going out of his way to tear down every single one of the ideas of the Enlightenment, those democratic ideals that our country was founded on. The Democrats should be passionately representing and teaching those ideas in a way that people can put their hearts into and go out and vote for.
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