DNC Struggles Financially as Big Donors Close Wallets

[LeftInTX]

14. It's weird how our brains work that way. I'm one of those who is critical of Meidas Touch etc.

I think it's because too many people believe it, then we get out hopes up high. (Like Trump is going to prison and stuff like that. Maybe because the way these groups do this can contribute to complacency instead of voter action and anger at the GOP. Are they the source of rumors like "Trump is at Walter Reed", "Trump is dead"? Portraying Trump as physically unhealthy (whether true or not) doesn't help our cause, because it doesn't matter. He's still throwing his power around.

Yet, I know OTOH "Trump God" things worked for Trump. Que Newsom, fake but likely effective.

I see BS ads against Dems on my TV.

I think the Newsom stuff was hilarious and effective. Of course, it wasn't true. I posted his silly videos all over FB.

If we're going with hyperbole, we need to make it "fear based". The GOP uses "fear". In 2024 an ad featured an ugly pic of a Democratic candidate super imposed with thousands of people storming the border creating mayhem. (She had never made immigration as part of her platform because she was running for a local state rep) Other ads against Democratic judges showed smash and grab gangs raiding San Francisco Walgreens.

We need to show ICE agents killing people.

In 2014, a Democrat in South Texas made an ad that was against the militias
https://www.ksat.com/news/2014/11/04/tea-party-members-protest-spanish-language-terrorist-commercial/
We didn't do too well in November that year....But it's worth a shot again...