Democrats are winning the messaging and the war for public opinion over the shutdown. People don't trust Republicans on health care, which is why Dems focused on that issue. That, and it's a genuine catastrophe for tens of millions of people of they don't fix this problem.
Victory can lead to victory, which is the entire mindset of Trumpism. It doesn't matter if your policies are actually good, so long as you're perceived as "winning." I think in the long run this is bullshit, but puncturing the perceptions of victory is important. (See the previous post about mocking ICE with inflatable costumes.)
There are some other axes that Democrats can win on, because they gibe with how people already think about the two parties. One is the closeness of billionaires to the GOP.
There are clips of farmers, especially soy bean farmers, talking with real despair about the current market for their crops. Most of them accurately note that Trump's trade wars are the reason why they can't sell their crop to China. I've been waiting for the Trump bailout of farmers, but so far it's only been hinted at.
We are, however, bailing out Argentine, more specifically techno-libertarian darling Javier Milei. Even worse, it seems pretty obvious that we are doing so primarily to bail out hedge funds that bet on Milei.
As kids starve in Africa, as American farmers file for bankruptcy, Trump and Bessant are bailing out hedge fund guys to the tune of $20,000,000,000.
I wouldn't run that ad everywhere, but I would smother the farm belt with this. "You can't sell your crops, the local hospital is closing, but we are spending $20 billion to bail out hedge funds." It's not only true, but it's the sort of attack that people are already primed to believe is true.
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