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Donald Trump's losing baby boomers, silent generation to Kamala Harris
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I wonder why. Someone else pointed out plans to cut medicare and social security, but that's not new for Trump or the GOP; they've been fucking those programs up for at least 20 years, and that never bothered boomers and Republican silent gen before. What changed?
I'll take a guess that it's because he's been repeating himself so often. They've tuned out any media not in their bubble, so all the reports of what a shit stain of a person he is are ignored or dismissed. But his own rallies? His own interviews? His own statements? He just keeps bringing out the same tired arguments and complaints that he has for the last 8 years, and he is much lower energy now. And it's happening often enough that they can't fully ignore it. He has finally committed the most unforgivable cardinal sin to them, he has become boring.
Yeah, you may be right. We've had, what, almost a decade of candidate/president Trump now? Even the most successful TV shows in history are pretty much out of gas by this point, there's just not really anything left to say that hasn't already been said. Even Fox news shakes up its talking heads every now and then, and it has the advantage of being "news" (massive sarcasm quotes there). Trump isn't bringing anything new to the table, it's the same old dog and pony show, and the tricks have gone stale. Makes sense.
So I guess now we're at the point where "Donald Trump" is revealed to have been Armin Tamzarian all along?
He's starting to sound like a broken record. A bitter, angry, broken one. At first his brand of populism was very fresh and charming to the right. But like the other right wing populist counterparts in Europe, I think Trump too is getting tiresome to listen to. It's been ten years of the same shtick and not much to show for it.