For many people Trump's association with MAGA has very strong negative connotations. Given his strongly anti-foreigner rhetoric, to many people "Make America Great Again" means "Make America White Again", that America was somehow better in the long distant less tolerant past.Senlac wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:43 pmI have no axe to grind regarding US politics, but I don’t think targeting the “MAGA” slogan (which was clearly effective for the Donald in 2016) will contribute towards preventing him win in 2020. I know negative advertising can help in politics, but negatively attacking a slogan is very unlikely to help.
My view is Clinton lost last time around by failing to inspire the American voter. MAGA might not be the most intellectual catch phrase, but unless the Democrats create a “better” one, MAGA wins again, even if/because opposition criticise it as meaningless
I was having a joke of course. You are right of course that targeting the slogan in an election is a losing proposition. It will just further inflame the divisions that Trump has been actively feeding in his presidency.
I think many people read too much into the wins of this politician or that politician. Clinton won in 92 because of the recession and because of Perot. September 11th saved Bush's presidency. Obama may not have won without the financial crisis (Obama sharply pulled ahead when Lehman collapsed). Trump won because of the last minute investigation of Hillary's emails...and even with that he won only barely against a candidate that had all the charisma of a rock and has a knack for acting in a way that made any "scandal" ten times worse. Whilst 2 years is a long time and anything can happen at least at this point and as long as the democrats don't choose a candidate too crazy I think Trump has a big hill to climb to be re-elected.