Also it's peak Career Democratic Operatives Who Are Always Wrong to assume anyone knows what a fucking tariff is enough to be emotionally invested in that story. And Trump's chaos on the issue can easily be spun into 3-D chess to the kind of person prone to voting for Trump. I think what Newsome is trying to do—recall he's flirting with …
Also it's peak Career Democratic Operatives Who Are Always Wrong to assume anyone knows what a fucking tariff is enough to be emotionally invested in that story. And Trump's chaos on the issue can easily be spun into 3-D chess to the kind of person prone to voting for Trump. I think what Newsome is trying to do—recall he's flirting with the podcasting Manosphere—is engage in the bucking "suicidal empathy" trend. But conservatives have always been good at sniffing out frauds, so seems both evil and unlikely to work.
I'm not sure "conservatives have always been good at sniffing out frauds". My entire life they've been getting hoodwinked by Republicans that don't give a fuck about them over and over again. They seem completely unable to sniff out frauds. Like, at all. Maybe you meant this in only a very specific Newsome-centric context, but giving conservatives credit for being able to sniff out frauds seems wildly off-base.
Also it's peak Career Democratic Operatives Who Are Always Wrong to assume anyone knows what a fucking tariff is enough to be emotionally invested in that story. And Trump's chaos on the issue can easily be spun into 3-D chess to the kind of person prone to voting for Trump. I think what Newsome is trying to do—recall he's flirting with the podcasting Manosphere—is engage in the bucking "suicidal empathy" trend. But conservatives have always been good at sniffing out frauds, so seems both evil and unlikely to work.
I'm not sure "conservatives have always been good at sniffing out frauds". My entire life they've been getting hoodwinked by Republicans that don't give a fuck about them over and over again. They seem completely unable to sniff out frauds. Like, at all. Maybe you meant this in only a very specific Newsome-centric context, but giving conservatives credit for being able to sniff out frauds seems wildly off-base.