Alternative headline: Trump finally tells the truth about something.

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      True.

      The worry with letting your opponent make your case for you is that it means you need to give your opponent screentime.
      The more you need to rely of the person being spoken to to think about what your opponent is saying as opposed to just listening, the more you risk the viewer agreeing with what you’re showing them as opposed to parsing it as hypocrisy.

      If someone isn’t looking, and they just hear trump yelling about how criminals are criminals and they never change, they don’t get to see the contextualization that he has dozens of felony convictions and Harris has precisely zero.

      It’s why trump talking about her credentials as a prosecutor and him being a felon, in a dumb voice to boot, is such a perfect setup: there’s no way to misinterpret it.

      So while more clips are definitely feasible, a clip making trump sound tough on crime might not be ideal for the sound bite circuit.