RVAT: New ad: "Has Your Party Left You?"

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I despise everything Ronald Reagan stood for, but he's still a hero to many. This might get through to some who aren't in the zombie death cult.

Link to tweet

[hedda_foil]

1. Wow!

[BComplex]

2. I wonder how many people that will resonate with.

The Cheeto in Chief will probably say it's liberal propaganda.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. That Ad Is Devastating. If I were a Trumpie Apparatchik, I'd hate it.

That ad is devastating. Aimed at present or former Republican voters, it reminds those voters about what they believed in (Or thought they believed in) and how genuinely far their party has fallen. It should score a bulls-eye among those Republicans who still let their heads as well as their guts direct how they vote.

I agree with you that many Democrats, particularly those who'd been in the trenches for decades, remember Reagan with dislike and how little that ad had in common with Reaganism in practice.

But let me remind Democratic campaign workers and ideological purists of several things worth remembering. First, Ronald Reagan is dead and can't cough up any objections to using that ad against Donald Trump and Trump's allies. Second, that ad isn't directed towards us: it's aimed at traditional Republican voters, voters who don't give a rat's backside as to what Progressive movement purists consider what is politically acceptable. Fourth, do we Democrats really want to win this November, or do we let intramural ideological quarreling drag us down to another defeat like 2016 and our losses before then.

I have no objections to this ad being aimed at current and former Republican voters.

I also want to see the good guys win this November.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

4. K & R

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5. wow. That is a REALLY good ad

Thanks for posting it!

[la-trucker]

6. Very powerful

It will affect many 50+ year olds.

[regnaD kciN]

7. Answer: "No"...

Because, for all of Reagan's honeyed words, his policies were virtually identical to Trump's, just as the same was true of both Bushes between the two. Remember, Reagan was the one who launched his campaign with an appearance in the city where the three civil-rights workers were murdered, and talked about the need for "state's rights." He was just better at dropping hints where 45 says it out loud.