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Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by wredcoll on Monday March 31, 2025 @10:42PM (#43542295)
> Surely denying massive campaign problems, such as "basket of deplorables" and not distancing herself from Biden, will work.

Yeah, those are totally "massive campaign problems". Massive. Gigantic. Career ending.

Oh wait, Trump constantly throws out insults and associated with morally repugnant people. He insults christians and veterans and still got elected. I don't think these are the real issues.

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Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by GrumpyCat42 on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @12:30AM (#43542862)
If calling half of your opponents supporters bigots while simultaneously giving the bigots the marketing opportunity of a lifetime isn't a massive campaign problem, then what is? I still see and block people who have "deplorable" in their name eight years later.

He insults christians and veterans, and yet they vote for him overwhelmingly. The rules and issues are obviously different for the left and the right, and whataboutism just doesn't work. Fighting the "fair fight" instead of the actual fight won't end well.

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