The more D's try to portray Trump as a mobster mastermind the more they are gonna lose

[BlueSwan]

D's still don't get that trying to portray Trump as an immoral, wife-cheating, bullying, mobster mastermind is backfiring. Your average dumbass voter LIKES that about Trump. This is a losing strategy and we all should have learned that lesson after 2016. Besides, in no way is Trump a "mastermind" of anything, the guy is a total moron who cannot put two sentences together and has the linguistic skills of a 9 year old.

What D's SHOULD attack Trump on is him being an incompetent moron, who blows up the deficit giving tax cuts to the rich, takes away abortion rights, literally would have ended NATO and started world war 3 if there hadn't been "adults in the room" last time around, tried to overturn an election because he couldn't handle the idea of a personal defeat, believes that climate change is a hoax and is selling out your childrens future for bribes by the energy sector.

Literally ANYTHING but Trump being a cruel mastermind. Please.

[mjba257]

It was always foolish to think that in a culture that fell in love with The Godfather, Goodfellas, the Sopranos, etc would be turned off by a candidate who was portrayed as a mobster.

[Steve from Lambeth]

Didn't SCOTUS overturn a New Jersey law banning the status of being a gangster in the 1930s?

[Fusternino]

This seems correct. A lot of polls show that voter don't particular care if Trump is racist, a womanizer, or even a criminal. If anything, him being rich is the biggest turn off. And yes, Trump is very bad at being bad. For as many lies as he tells, he's a terrible liar. [In general, a well placed lie can be effective but most people are bad liars and overestimate their skill here]

[wnwnwn]

I think tjhey could try to portay him as a tool/puppet of the 2025 Project gang.

[DrScholl]

If that was the case he never would have lost in the first place. The fundamentals in 2020 would have allowed any other president to be re-elected, but because Trump is such a horrible, unlikable, untrustworthy person he lost. He has a base of 46-47% but beyond that he struggles. Being disliked as a person is his biggest handicap. Not as a politician, but as a person.

With that said most of the attacks leveled against him by the Democratic Party are on policy and the legal issues are mostly leveled against him by social media users.

[Progressive Pessimist]

I don't think they're going this route.

As of right now the main theme seems to be that Trump is simply a danger to everything Americans should value.

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

If that was the case he never would have lost in the first place. The fundamentals in 2020 would have allowed any other president to be re-elected, but because Trump is such a horrible, unlikable, untrustworthy person he lost. He has a base of 46-47% but beyond that he struggles. Being disliked as a person is his biggest handicap. Not as a politician, but as a person.

With that said most of the attacks leveled against him by the Democratic Party are on policy and the legal issues are mostly leveled against him by social media users.

In 2020, Trump lost because of the economy being terrible, COVID, and BLM turning up black turnout.

[Sir Mohamed]

BlueSwan doomer threaf

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Lol no do you honestly believe without J6 Trump will be tied with Biden he would be the fav

[Rubensim]

Sorry but it feel like it too late at this point
for the past 8 years some people have hammered that trump is a as you said a immortal wife-cheating democracy destroying mastermind unable to comprehend the concept of democracy itself and that ain't going away for a long time

[Del Tachi]

Yes, Trump has been a major aspirational figure since he first came onto the scene over 40 years ago.  He is every poor person's idea of a rich person.   

[ProgressiveModerate]

Yes, Trump has been a major aspirational figure since he first came onto the scene over 40 years ago.  He is every poor person's idea of a rich person.   

This transcends politics, but one of my pet peeves is the number of who just seem to have this belief one day they’ll be super wealthy and act almost entitled to it, and believe the way they will become rich is by doing the opposite of what they probably should (don’t go to college, get into stock/crypto trading, isolate yourself from others around you).

Like its good to be aspirational and have big goals, but this isn’t healthy for the individual or larger society.

[nerd73]

Yes, Trump has been a major aspirational figure since he first came onto the scene over 40 years ago.  He is every poor person's idea of a rich person.   

It's incredible that Democrats haven't gotten this yet.

[Octowakandi]

Yes, Trump has been a major aspirational figure since he first came onto the scene over 40 years ago.  He is every poor person's idea of a rich person.   

Isn't that why Dems worked so hard to try to change the perception of Trump from the poor person's idea of a rich person to an educated person's idea of Hitler?

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

If Trump wasn't indicted or had J6 his polls would be exactly where they are at now, but pollsters are over polling Trump and there has been an R bias since the R primary

[dspNY]

I actually agree with the OP because if anything, Trump is senile

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Yes, Trump has been a major aspirational figure since he first came onto the scene over 40 years ago.  He is every poor person's idea of a rich person.   

Isn't that why Dems worked so hard to try to change the perception of Trump from the poor person's idea of a rich person to an educated person's idea of Hitler?

I understand that, as a Republican, you want to promote Mr. Trump's image, even if doing so requires departing from documented history. (Indeed, such behavior seems to be mandatory for today's Republicans.) But the false modesty is unbecoming and unfit for the forum. The perception of Mr. Trump as, "an educated person's idea of Hitler" is something he was able to accomplish entirely on his own.

[All Along The Watchtower]

He is every poor person's idea of a rich person.   

Damning stuff.