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Democratic National Convention: Play-by-play
invite response
2016 Jul 25, 6:31pm 27,278 views 97 comments
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zzyzzx
2016 Jul 30, 7:01pm
http://regated.com/2016/07/dnc-proved-clinton-cant-win/
Do any Republicans or Independents buy what the Democrats were selling? That the country would be better off with more of the same incompetence of the last eight years? Not one of those speakers convincingly made that case. In fact, the DNC might have driven down Hillary’s numbers with the Stalinist suppression of Bernie holdouts both in and around the convention
With the climax of this self-indulgent remake of DNC ’08 and ’12 featuring an old, white, corrupt hag poorly delivering a badly written speech, it is hard to imagine how Democrat money and clout can save a fundamentally bad candidate. This is hard to imagine because it will not happen.
It is very easy to underestimate the power of enthusiasm; but compare Obama’s margin of victory in 2012 to 2008. When Obama had the whole “hope and change†charade going and Chris Matthews was getting thrills up his leg, he could count on his people to get off the couch and cast their vote. Will that constituency turn out for corrupt lame-o Hillary Clinton? There is a culture on the internet that refers to Donald Trump as “the God-Emperor of Mankind.†As a millennial, I can say with some authority that Donald Trump may be the most ubiquitous internet meme of all time. The record amount of Republicans that turned out for him in the primaries in a 17-man race will turn out loyally in November. Are there a whole lot of Democrats jumping out of their seat to vote for Hillary in November?
Consider the importance of messaging as well. There was no ambiguity at the RNC as to what the party of Trump is all about: Make America safe/work/first/one/great again. Ask any Trump voter from Oregon to Texas and they’re voting for Trump to make America great again. This is a clean, elegant, concise phrase that achieves versatility through its strong appeal to a universal sense of patriotism. The Trump brand is the America brand. And what about ol’ crooked Hillary? What was the theme of DNC 2016? The only consistent message I could discern from that four-day word stew was “Donald Trump is a racist, I’m not Donald Trump.†If this becomes the dominant narrative of the Hillary campaign, as it is shaping up to be, she will have a much harder time winning on a platform that is wholly dependent on framing the public’s perception of Trump. The media has not figured out how to do this in the 13 months since he launched his campaign.
The failure of the DNC is symptomatic of the intrinsic flaw of the Hillary campaign. She must defend the status quo. This has meant a status quo DNC. A candidate from eight years ago wheeled out the same tired rhetoric of eight years ago to win over an electorate that created Donald Trump to reject the legacy of the last eight years. Half of her own party voted to reject the last eight years with the breakout success of insurgent Bernie Sanders. If she could barely put down a revolt in her own party led by a 70-year-old Jewish socialist from Vermont even with hundreds of millions of dollars, name recognition, the support of a sitting President, and a party system actually rigged to nominate her, how does anybody expect her to stop the most remarkable political phenomenon in American history?
All the President’s men cannot resurrect the political zombie which should have been laid to rest in 2008. After six years of betrayal, the American people have found their voice in Donald Trump, the instrument of righteous popular retribution against a downright evil political class. And this year, at long last, Hillary Clinton’s time has come; and she is beyond salvation.
marcus
2016 Jul 30, 7:27pm
Ask any Trump voter from Oregon to Texas and they’re voting for Trump to make America great again. This is a clean, elegant, concise phrase that achieves versatility through its strong appeal to a universal sense of patriotism.
Some see it as a moronic dog whistle for working class white voters who blame diversity and immigration for the stagnation of their incomes. That's what you'll hear from any democratic voter, as well as a lot of republicans that aren't going to buy the demagoguery.
"Duh, we used to have increasing incomes, but real incomes have been decreasing for decades. It must be the liberals fault. It must be immigrants fault."
IT couldn't possibly be the fault of our low taxes on upper increments of income, misplaced priorities, or decreased govt investment in things like infrastructure, and higher education and the commons.
MisdemeanorRebel
2016 Jul 30, 11:08pm
Speaking of the Donor Class, theKoch Brothers won't pay to run anti-Hillary ads.
http://www.wmtw.com/politics/speaker-paul-ryan-and-other-top-republicans-to-address-koch-group/40962338
And some people never get deliberately hyperbolic enthusiasm (or are deliberately not getting it in order to smear). #CENTIPEDE
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-god-emperor-creepy-reddit_us_579a6970e4b08a8e8b5d38b5
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Use this thread to post the happenings of the Democratic National Convention: I'll start:
The schedulers are trying to bring out non-booable performers in order to silence the voice of the Bernie Sanders supporters
--A handicapped woman in a wheelchair, replete with a speech impediment
--Al Franken (senator, former comedian)
--Sarah SIlverman (comedian)
--Paul SImon singing "Bridge over troubled water"
The worst part is, it seems to be working. The Bernie-or-bust people need to step up their game. EVERYONE should be booed. The above scheduling is just manipulation, and should be seen as such.