Big BINGO. Exactly right. They hit you below the belt, you clobber them back even further below the belt. Fight fire with fire, and other trite phrases. Go Donald!
Maybe this is reminiscent of Psalm 2 where it says God will laugh at those who have plotted a vain thing (doubtless doing their own chortling as they did so) against Him.
Up to a point it works; it can’t be the only or even main thing on the menu. The idea of a broom is not to occupy the room forever, but to get it clean for something good.
To a lesser extent Carly is doing the same thing to Hillary with her “liar, liar” sound bite. And she has refused to back off of it, (see the Chris Matthews interview after the debate).
I believe this is exactly what is behind DT mass appeal.
Of course the LIV has never even heard of RFR or Saul Alinksy.
I know I’m not the only one on FR who is loving how he is using their own playbook against them.
“They bring a knife, you bring a gun...”
Gee.
Now who said that, besides Sean Connery?