Victor Davis Hanson
The only way Harris–Walz will emerge from their fusion media Iron Dome is if they begin to trail four or so points in the polls.
But since there may not be enough time in this bizarre, abbreviated campaign to allow them organically to melt down in their banality, the only way Trump can blast open their Iron Dome is to:
1) Again, stick to the issues. And that means nonstop comparing the Trump record with the neo-socialist Biden–Harris catastrophe while reminding everyone of the past Harris–Walz hard left rhetoric and record.
There are five issues and they likely all favor Trump: 1) the economy and the 30 percent inflation in the key staples of our existence since January 2021; 2) the blown-up border and 10 million illegal aliens who swarmed in unlawfully and without any background checks; 3) the disastrous Biden–Harris policy of weakness abroad that has prompted two big wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and created a new anti-American axis of Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea; 4) crime and the self-created epidemic of lawlessness that Biden–Harris birthed; and 5) energy and resource self-sufficiency instead of planned dependence and shortages.
There is not a second that can be wasted in such a short 80-day campaign in rehashing the 2020 election, hammering away endlessly at Biden’s senility and growing irrelevance, feuding with those who endorse Trump, or vaguely calling Harris–Walz bad/dumb/stupid/disasters without showing why and how.
2) Keep shaming the media for their overt obsequiousness. Even in-the-tank reporters are growing angry at Harris because she will not give even her toadies the spotlight to lavish her with softball questions and thus serve their narcissistic fixes.
The media wants to ensure she’s elected but they are peeved that even Harris does not trust herself with her own sycophants.So, the more Trump gives focused press conferences, rallies, and interviews and stays on the issues, the more even the ingratiating media will be shamed into criticizing her Iron Dome.And that way all the more Harris will fixate and fear speaking without scripts—in a sort of doom loop of Harris knowing she may finally be damned for staying mute and yet damned if she displays to the nation her adolescence.
3) Trump should be more ecumenical. Bring out on stage a Georgia governor Kemp. Showcase more Nikki Hayley and Ron DeSantis. Praise them. Be candid that their past rivalries are ancient history, and that Trump is lucky to have such allies. Show a solid front.
4) Trump can even be self-critical. He has done it before with humor. So, he should admit and stress his blunt authenticity, given his “he is, what he is/you get what you see” genuineness.
So, Trump might say:
“Yes, I am blunt and tough. And that may turn some off. But I am authentic. You know who I am and what I did in the past and what I will do in 2024. I don’t hide anything. I talk to any reporter anywhere anytime about anything. Why wouldn’t all presidential candidates do the same?
I don’t sugarcoat. I don’t laugh on cue because there is nothing funny about what Biden and Harris did to America over the last four years.
I won’t avoid interviews that the American people deserve. I won’t change my accent, and certainly not my politics or my appearance just to pander to audiences. I’d rather be tough-talking and speak the truth to everyone about what Harris and Biden are doing to our country than sound loopy and syrupy while hiding who I was and what I was planning for you.
We are in tough times that call for tough talk and tough people, not therapeutic mishmash, word salads, and fake bios.
To hide from the public is shameful. It is an insult, a slap in the face to all Americans—especially after Harris never entered a single primary and has never won herself a single delegate.
This is supposed to be a democracy where blunt candidates run in tough primaries and battle for your confidence.
America is not a third-world country where the bosses pick crony candidates without elections who then hide from the people and outsource their campaigns to Pravda-like state-run media.”
Or so he should speak…
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