Forget About Distraction; New Strategy Is Exhaustion
The President has never cared about truth. Now he’s just trying to tire you out.
Trump’s kind of almost given up on distracting from his mistakes. Although sometimes he can’t help it. Especially instantly blaming the “other side” on anything of which he can be credibly accused.
Instead, or at least in addition, his campaign and those surrounding him have shifted into a new gear: just make everybody who’s against him really exhausted so they’ll be totally bereft of energy on Election Day, or better yet, convinced their one vote couldn’t possibly make a difference. The nation’s already too divided. Irreparably. Isn’t it?
This effort to exhaust is already evident in all kinds of things. Starting with Hunter Biden. As we said back in January, who the hell cares about Hunter Biden?! Yet they’ll just keep piling it on even though they know Hunter Biden’s no Hillary Clinton, and even Hillary Clinton was no “Hillary Clinton”, just so some non-Trump voters might feel buried under piles and piles of BS.
And presto! Stories about that make up more than 1/2 our news feed today.
And why has Republican leadership in the Senate established October 23rd as the date on which full Senate floor debate should start on approving Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett? So that a final vote will come as close to Election Day as possible. So they can cover up the breaking of an “incontrovertible rule” they made up themselves with a little show of raw power heading into the election. So as many Democratic voters out there as possible might feel “no point; can’t win”.
That makes up nearly the other half of our news feed right now.
In fact, on top of multiple stories about those people and things, we see just 3 others:
- A very long but very interesting ProPublica piece about the CDC.
- A lone Washington Post item about how new unemployment claims creeped back up toward one million people last week.
- And a Politico story about how there’s going to be a lot of grandstanding on getting additional Coronavirus relief funds to people before Election Day, with a lot of people blaming a lot of…
