Politics of clarity versus politics of insult
On Thursday, with a joint interview of Harris and Pence with CNN, the media competition between the two rival election campaigns in America will transform.
At least the hope of the media and experts is that in recent days, observing the relative silence of the Harris campaign along with the relatively interesting activities of the Pence team on social networks on one side, and the not-so-influential meetings and speeches of Trump and his deputy on the other side, both campaigns have focused on presenting their policies in the current state of the election competition. Even if they are recent, they are reflected in a few lines, and even Harris’s economic speech and promises and plans were put under the spotlight of the party convention after a week or two and forgotten.
Trump’s current campaign approach is also insult, insult, and insult. No new policies are being presented, and promises like deporting immigrants are attractive to the Republican base, and promises like making everything cheaper are not easily believable for anyone.
People’s anger and frustration over recent high inflation could have a significant impact. Some voters may have already made their choice based on this criterion. Democrats have taken mocking and criticizing Trump very seriously, and satirical advertising clips about him have been made and aired much more than before.
During the Trump era, Democrats always insisted on observing etiquette and principles of behavior, and they still do not exceed the reasonable limits and norms of American society.
Nevertheless, several new analyses of the unprecedented spread of jokes and satire in Democrats’ election ads, which have crossed their previous boundaries, must describe this trend as a straightforward policy.
Perhaps this straightforward policy, with Obama’s humorously derogatory reference to Trump’s genitalia, may enter the realm of insult. However, this is a particular story that he himself created with his extramarital relationship with famous porn star Stormy Daniels, and before that, Marco Rubio also joked about this in a different context during the 2016 party primaries.
Democrats have always been concerned that if they do not observe the norms of behavior and speech, their reputation will be tarnished. In simple terms, self-indulgence and negligence in many cases have been interpreted as weakness. Trump and his deputy in recent weeks no longer recognize any boundaries.
Trump has repeatedly called Harris stupid and crazy and in response to criticisms, he said he has the right to do so because Harris is stupid and not intelligent. His previous insults about Harris’s name, race, and other examples that have been mentioned in his speech, and Pence has recently surprisingly followed the same trend.
In his election speech in Pennsylvania, he criticized Harris for the improper management of the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan, which is naturally meaningless because Harris was not responsible for overseeing the withdrawal of forces.
Nevertheless, his statements about Harris were severely beyond the usual political norms.
He easily said in response to criticisms following his speech that he is angry about Harris’s weak management in this regard. A policy of clarity against insulting policies has been established. The space for creating attractiveness with ideas and plans has been very limited, while Trump in 2016 garnered votes with the alienation and anti-immigrant ideas and the idea of hate towards Washington and those who run the country.
Now even labeling Harris as a liberal or communist doesn’t have much impact.
It is this boldness and courage that is effective, with one trying to show themselves to the audience through frankness and the other through insult.
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