r/politics • u/Silent-Resort-3076 America • 1d ago

Soft Paywall Obama and Harris publicly rebuke Trump’s second term actions

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/politics/obama-harris-rebuke-trump/index.html
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u/kylew1985 1d ago

The Dems really need to ramp the messaging up to 11 all day every day. I mean the GOP milked Benghazi, emails, a random laptop and dominated the whole fucking newscycle for years with scandals they duct taped together.

The Dems have so many legitimate talking points for real issues that are hurting the overwhelming majority of the country, and most of the GOP has been carrying the Trump flag for so long they have zero plausible deniability. For all the man's lies and bullshit, he openly ran on massive sweeping tariffs, aggressive immigration policies/deportations, and using EO's to "be a dictator on day one"

They need to run the attack on the big issues nonstop for as long as it takes. Trump's economic policy is robbing anyone with retirement savings in the stock market, and his DOGE policy is robbing anyone hoping to supplement or depend on Social Security in retirement. The Dems can make up a ton of ground with the middle/working class by calling this out loud and often.

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u/YeaSpiderman 1d ago

In reality They need to hammer home “this isn’t a democrat vs republican thing” but a group of bad actors that are actively harming a lot of American institutions, power, and a lot of the population.

Not all republicans are represented by trump and maga. Differences in opinions are healthy for America. Differences in representation are too. What is happening is not ok and this doesn’t represent what republicans believe in (or at least to the degree it’s happening).

Everyone loves bad guy. Make this a 3 group problem. Republicans vs democrats vs trump. Not lumping trump in with all republicans and then making it a republicans va democrats issue. Tribalism can have a hell of a grip on people.

Divide and conquer baby!

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u/absenteequota Rhode Island 1d ago

ten years into trump turning the party into a personality cult and someone still has to come along and "not all republicans" it.

trump consistently has stellar approval ratings within his own party. every elected republican, even the ones who criticize him, played a part in him getting and keeping this power. this is 100% a republican problem.

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u/Tschmelz Minnesota 1d ago

Yup. Kamala worked hard to give any "reasonable" Republicans an out during the campaign, and it apparently didn't fucking matter at all. At this point, you might as well lump them all together.