• DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I feel like I’ve seen this headline (and slight variants) multiple times in the past few weeks. It’s almost a Gish Gallop statement, because where do you begin?

    It implies that he had a grip 4/8 years ago.

    It implies that he ever had a grip.

    It implies that his public statements are weirder now than before, when they’ve always been bizarre.

    It implies that Donald Trump’s policy positions are peculiar to him, when really he’s basically reflecting what Republicans have been trying to push on us for decades.

    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz
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      1 month ago

      No, he’s never had a grip, but there’s been a noticeable change since even 2016. As there was a noticeable change to 16 from ten years prior. He’s just gradually declining. It means nothing for his base that they are voting for a Vance succession, apparently.