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So many Republicans in the DNC line-up today.
1. Anti-Trump Republicans are probably the single most over-represented group in the American media opinion-sphere, with high profiles because they worked for previous administrations. There aren’t that many of them out there.
1. Anti-Trump Republicans are probably the single most over-represented group in the American media opinion-sphere, with high profiles because they worked for previous administrations. There aren’t that many of them out there.
2. There are Trump voters from 2016 to be peeled off but most of them probably aren’t Republican identifiers. Not the types who get nostalgic about John McCain or whatever.
3. This seems to be repeating Hillary Clinton’s mistake of wooing moderate Republicans rather than consolidating the Democratic vote and motivating turnout. Maybe that won’t be such a problem this time around given the Trump-hate vote, but that’s a definite gamble.
4. Biden seems to be selling this fantasy that with a big enough electoral repudiation of Trump, Republicans will go back to being a “normal” party. Is anyone really buying that apart from reputation-laundering Republicans from previous eras?
5. Who would have believed that the Trump catastrophe could happen to the party of Newt Gingrich, Dennis Hastert and Sarah Palin? Probably any normal person not poisoned by the self-mythology of the 90s/2000s GOP, which Trump threw out the window anyway.
6. So “Trump as aberration” theory may make a few Republicans feel better about themselves, probably won’t actually motivate them to vote for Biden and will piss off actual Democrats. Doesn’t seem like a great strategy.
7. It is part of a broader strategy of appealing to a return to normality. I’m not convinced by it but I can imagine how it could get marginal votes. But that does NOT require a night of the DNC devoted to Republicans who won’t be convincing other Republicans.
8. I’m not suggesting the GOP is kicking electoral goals with their convention choices but they do know their audience. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1295513015597568005
