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As Barack Obama stumps for other Democrats, the party gets to see what it lost (www.theguardian.com)

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“It’s not as if we didn’t see some of this coming,” said Barack Obama, a note of bleak humour in his voice. “I will admit it’s worse than even I expected, but I did warn y’all!”

The crowd at a sports arena in Norfolk, Virginia, half-laughed and half-groaned. “I did,” Obama added. “You can run the tape.”

Now Obama is back on the campaign trail, for Democrats running for governor in New Jersey and Virginia. It gives him a platform to deliver an alternative State of the Union address. And the gloves are off.

To hear the expectant buzz of the 7,000-plus crowd in Norfolk as candidate Abigail Spanberger promised that Obama’s entrance was just moments away was to be reminded that Democrats did once have a president who could match Trump’s superstar charisma.

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If we compare Trump to a phishing email, they are remarkably close.

Use of language: Phishing emails usually incorporate misspellings and bad grammar, this is done to prevent people who are too detail oriented from wasting the scammer's time, if they sort themselves out the scammer can focus on the gullible people who will believe them later in the process. Trump uses child like grammar in the same way, it turns away educated people from his fans, reducing the risk that they will start convincing followers that Trump is bad, which increase the echo chamber effect.

Use of hyperbole: Phishing emails will push hard for fast action, telling you that doing X is extremely important, and needs to be done now. Same with Trump, there is always a big crisis, putting you on edge, stressing you out, this further reduce his follower's ability to use critical thinking, so they will have an easier time to mindlessly support whatever action they are told will solve the crisis.

There are way more similarities, but I am on mobile, and starting to cramp, so I end this comment here.

TL;DR: Trump is a scam email.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 points 5 months ago

I think he is a cursed chain letter. Everything he touches in the chain turns into shit.