"Dry policy messaging or warnings about threats to democracy are less likely to be widely shared than a good roast, as Walz discovered a month ago when he changed Democrats’ political strategy wholesale by labelling Trump and Vance “weird.” The Harris campaign has an account on Trump’s social-media platform Truth Social, where it follows only one account—Trump’s. It could have spent time disputing misinformation or trying to convert Trump-skeptical Republicans on Trump’s own turf. Instead, the Harris account has opted for mocking its opponent. When Trump complained that Harris was getting too much credit for the size of her crowds, Harris’s Truth Social account posted photos from the two candidates’ Philadelphia rallies in the same arena side by side (suggesting, of course, that hers was indeed larger). Such dunks, as Internet slang would put it, are primed to be shared gleefully beyond Truth Social, a performance directed at the whole of social media."
How Harris is Beating Trump Online, NY-er (sorry ab paywall)
Good to see Harris/Walz fighting fire with fire in digital native-landia and that they have some twenty-somethings on the job. Not comforting to realize that several of the biggest social media "dunk"-ing platforms are owned by Billionaires hostile to the Harris/Walz's democratic agenda. And not comforting when you think about how "dunking" is, in fact, Trump's only actual political skill and right up his WWE kayfabe alley. Now, on the other hand, if Harris/Walz can slay the beast, so to speak, in this fashion it will make her victory in the 2024 election, her retribution for women, HRC/2016, "Me Too," and Dobbs, all the sweeter poetic justice.
Bring it on, Harris/Walz!
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