Hm, I wonder if pushing the issue could have electoral value beyond persuasion. For example, it’s possible that this whole saga has really decreased enthusiasm for Trump from part of his base, and might reduce their turnout compared to the counterfactual where the Epstein issue didn’t reemerge.
Also though, I think presidents become unpopular gradually through a gradual build up of many negative issues rather than one or two salient issues taking them down. So even if on its own this issue might not do much it still might be part of the recipe to make Trump more unpopular a year from now. It contributes to a general sense of bad vibes around Trump that night gradually pull him down.
It’s possible, though as we mentioned in last week’s article, the Dem enthusiasm advantage was, like, +4. That’s not especially unusual. But maybe that changes!
Dispositions of Trump-loving Republicans are unpersuadable. They are inflexible, intractable, and adamantine…
All accounts, judgments, allusions, insinuations, innuendos, or suggestions of malevolence implicating Trump are, somehow, both meticulously and arbitrarily ignored. It is the signature MAGA behavior. They will always support him. No matter what.
This is why it is so important to re-establish (establish?), and maintain political unity among American liberals and socialists — if only temporarily, and only for the sake of mutual self-defense. Fascists have proven several times already, that they will absolutely take (and hold!) power, ignoring any and all laws in the process — and abuse this power to persecute their opposition as out-groups — unless their cause is dispatched swiftly, and with cold indifference. This is exactly what they are doing to the left, and to liberalism — as planned — and what they will continue to do to us, their opposition, as long as they're allowed so much as a gulp of air.
Lessons of the Epstein scandal are instances within an endless parade of encounters with this horror, which paralyzes our attention and fixes it to our screens in both dread and fascination, as we anxiously await the next report…
Bleak
If "bleak" is the answer to today's Wordle, then the essay above is the hint.
Hm, I wonder if pushing the issue could have electoral value beyond persuasion. For example, it’s possible that this whole saga has really decreased enthusiasm for Trump from part of his base, and might reduce their turnout compared to the counterfactual where the Epstein issue didn’t reemerge.
Also though, I think presidents become unpopular gradually through a gradual build up of many negative issues rather than one or two salient issues taking them down. So even if on its own this issue might not do much it still might be part of the recipe to make Trump more unpopular a year from now. It contributes to a general sense of bad vibes around Trump that night gradually pull him down.
It’s possible, though as we mentioned in last week’s article, the Dem enthusiasm advantage was, like, +4. That’s not especially unusual. But maybe that changes!
Dispositions of Trump-loving Republicans are unpersuadable. They are inflexible, intractable, and adamantine…
All accounts, judgments, allusions, insinuations, innuendos, or suggestions of malevolence implicating Trump are, somehow, both meticulously and arbitrarily ignored. It is the signature MAGA behavior. They will always support him. No matter what.
This is why it is so important to re-establish (establish?), and maintain political unity among American liberals and socialists — if only temporarily, and only for the sake of mutual self-defense. Fascists have proven several times already, that they will absolutely take (and hold!) power, ignoring any and all laws in the process — and abuse this power to persecute their opposition as out-groups — unless their cause is dispatched swiftly, and with cold indifference. This is exactly what they are doing to the left, and to liberalism — as planned — and what they will continue to do to us, their opposition, as long as they're allowed so much as a gulp of air.
Lessons of the Epstein scandal are instances within an endless parade of encounters with this horror, which paralyzes our attention and fixes it to our screens in both dread and fascination, as we anxiously await the next report…
That June 2024 poll is kind of wild.