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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Sunday, October 22, 2023

Pudding Fingers v Dark Brandon

 Betty Cracker links to an analysis (post-mortem?) of DeSantis' "extremely online" campaign. At the end there's an important note about "memes" in politics. If you can laugh them off, you can neutralize them, but anyone who has been online knows, you can't feed the trolls. DeSantis is so abjectly humorless that he can't roll with the punches. Meanwhile, Biden and his campaign turned "Fuck you, Biden" into "Dark Brandon". They're even selling Dark Brandon coffee mugs. 

Trump's "sense of humor" is pretty awful, even if many of his Deplorable think he's hilarious. Nevertheless, some sort of bullying sense of humor does exist in Trump, and as much as a bully as DeSantis is, he has no wit. 


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