For the love of God, someone in the Trump campaign needs to listen to this stuff...
He should hammer the return of accountability and faith in government. Here are his two themes. One is red meat for his base and the other is a plea to the appalled and disgusted middle.
1. Law and order within the government. He should reiterate that he would look into the trail of corruption of ALL past administrations.
a. He would start by releasing FBI personnel who investigated Hillary from their NDAs and
b. immediately appoint an Independent Counsel for investigation of CF and affiliates during her tenure at State.
2. Immediately appoint an independent review of the FBI investigation including oversight, review and proceedings of the investigative processes pertaining to mishandling of classified documents and destruction of records.
3. Immediate introduce policies by EO and then legislation that anyone asserting their 5th amendment privilege in the course of a congressional or legal investigation for activity being investigated as a person fulfilling duties requiring that of Public Trust shall be immediately removed said position and permanently disbarred for further positions of Public Trust. Furthermore all benefits and retirement provision shall be irreversibly revoked from all positions, including all previous positions of Public Trust.
The justification for number 3 is simple, if you refuse to answer questions during your security clearance investigations, that is grounds for immediate disqualification for said Public Trust.
If Donald rolled this out during the last debate...THE RACE WOULD BE OVER!!!
See, I don’t think it’s strategically advantageous to get 1/50th as specific as you are. The more specific you get, the fewer and fewer people will be able to relate.
This is not an intelligent electorate. It is a Kardashian electorate. The appeal is not intellectual. Women are generally not intellectual in terms of what gets into their minds FIRST and FOREMOST. By that I do not mean they are smart or stupid. And half of men are emotional in that regard. So an intellectual appeal is only 25% good. If you wanna get into peoples’ heads, it is not about appealing to Consitutional principles, sadly.
BEFORE getting all that specific, I believe Trump is making FAR MORE effective and preparatory moves, most especially showing the media as totally corrupt and showing the inner workings of the Dem party as a vicious elitist cabal that would have nothing to do with the American people if not for the unpleasant task of convincing them to vote Dem.
Peoples brains are like the grooves of a record. Once conditioned in a certain way, the mind wants to replay those grooves over and over. To get out of those grooves the grooves have to be destroyed and that is what is going on with these demonstrations that the MSM is useless and corrupt and that these memes of “the Dems stand for the little guy” are the precise opposite of what is true. This is no trivial task; getting East Coast intellectual libs people to give up their cherished NYTimes, and getting working people to see just how despised they are.
To present alternative ideas without prepping peoples minds to receive them is like putting a brand new record down next to the record player. It may have a shiny, attractive psychedelic cover on it, but it does not take the old record off and it doesn’t put the new record on.