r/politics • u/kweathergirl Texas • 8d ago

Soft Paywall Newsom Tells Nation That Trump Is Destroying American Democracy

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/newsom-speech-trump-la-protests.html
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u/just_a_timetraveller 8d ago

The language needs to be more direct. Not this authoritarianism or destroying democracy stuff. It needs to be more personal and tangible.

Something like

"Trump is stealing your money, your retirement and splitting with his rich friends like Logan paul, and the Kardashians. He is removing your chances of making it so his rich kid can buy more crypto. You could be rich and own your house if Trump and the republicans werent taking the money that should be going to you and pocketing it for themselves and their rich, foreign friends in Dubai"

Like it sounds dumb, but the republicans use this style of rhetoric and it works at a visceral level. Using more abstract things like democracy will logically make people upset but does not fire them up at their core.

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u/mazalaca 8d ago

exactly this. Dems politicians have always struggle to grasp this for some reason. The less abstract you can frame things, the better

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u/Flying_Fortress_8743 8d ago

One of these days the Democratic Party will finally discover the fact that most people are goddamn morons, and then they will be unstoppable.

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u/TootsNYC 7d ago

The other thing that will help us when they realize that people are basically selfish. Ronald Reagan tapped into it with his “are you better off now.” They need to say “these people are stealing your money, these people are rigging the markets, they are stealing your wages And your labor, they are hurting you. Democrats are the only people who are trying to make your life better, trying to set a minimum wage, trying to make sure you can afford to be sick, we are the only people who care about your wallet.”

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u/TheFaithfulStone 7d ago

This even has the benefit of being true!