Frank's Musings

A key to defeating Trump is alerting his base to the contemptuous manner in which he feeds their self-delusions, I. e. lies to them.  Nancy Peolosi was right to excoriate him for it today.  The tactic is like how the tobacco companies seduced the public to smoke for reasons of self-aggrandizement or sexual attractiveness in order to sneak in a nicotine addiction that assured them of compulsive demand.

Of course, this is also the strategy of Zox News.  Their interpretation of daily political events begins by determining the spin that will be most easily accepted by their target audience.  They and the Donald are masters at accomodating the prejudices of people who prefer not to think for themselves.

The challenge facing the Biden/Harris campaign is to moiivate anough thinking citizens to come to the polls in November to outweigh that bloc's turnout, if not also to convince some of the Fox/Trump bloc that reelecting the Donald will mean continued abuse of their and everybody else's welfare.