Amanda Marcotte: Why read past headlines: If you wonder why Trump and his cronies say terrible things out loud that should turn off swing voters, this article explains it. But it's a high-risk/high-reward fascist strategy. With Project 2025, it may be backfiring. www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

Project 2025 was from the Chris Rufo school of fascist communications, where you discuss your evil schemes out loud, confident the "normies" are not paying enough attention to notice. But now it seems less politically engaged people are taking notice. www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiringwww.salon.com Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through to people who haven't heard of it — and it's scaring them

Why read past headlines: If you wonder why Trump and his cronies say terrible things out loud that should turn off swing voters, this article explains it. But it's a high-risk/high-reward fascist strategy. With Project 2025, it may be backfiring. www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiringwww.salon.com Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through to people who haven't heard of it — and it's scaring them

I wrote this Wednesday, drawing on search data and social media evidence. But I got anecdotal confirmation last night. I was a 4th party and spoke to an educator from a suburban district who expressed worry about "plan 2025 or whatever it's called." www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiringwww.salon.com Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through to people who haven't heard of it — and it's scaring them

"The MAGA goal with bad guy posturing is twofold: First, get the juices flowing in their base. "Second, cause those progressives who are paying attention to panic. "Trumpists then paint the people speaking out as a bunch of liberal crazies who are exaggerating." www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiringwww.salon.com Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through to people who haven't heard of it — and it's scaring them

One more reason to read — and share: I put this into the "news you can use" category. I know it can be hard to persuade fence-sitters that Trump is as dangerous as he is. But, my preliminary research suggests Project 2025 may be the kind of thing that breaks through. www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiringwww.salon.com Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through to people who haven't heard of it — and it's scaring them

Obviously, I'd love to see some more rigorous focus group and other testing of this idea. But that the Biden campaign is leaning so heavily on messaging about Project 2025 suggests they've done this research internally and my theory has some juice. www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiringwww.salon.com Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through to people who haven't heard of it — and it's scaring them

I stay far, far away from Twitter these days but the fake lefty accounts promoting/shielding Project 2025 certainly has the same support-Trump-from-the-left stink we saw in 2020 and 2016 on there a bit. Bad and/or weird memes, sketchy accounts without history, points that don’t make sense.

And the fake lefty accounts are helped along by an occasional real lefty who keeps wanting to push Jill Stein or Cornel West.

It helps that Joyce Vance at Civil Discourse is on it, and Simon Rosenberg is gearing up.

Backfire all the way 🔥🔥🔥

They are right about one thing, MAGA certainly are revolting.

I really hope this is the case - as a political junkie you forget how detached the average voter is from the election this far out.

We all have a role to play. Tell people about Project 2025.

Nah, they've got the major media all in on Trumpism, and will use men with guns to cause massive chaos in the swing states this fall, throwing the determination to the House of Reps, more red states then blue, Trump installed, Supremes ratify, and we're off to the races on Trump2: Tour de Vengeance.

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