Now We Have To Worry About Copy-Cat Trumps
In a move that sends shivers up, down, and sideways your spine, the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee wants all the Republican senatorial candidates to be mini-Trump.
In a seven-page confidential memo that imagines Trump as the party’s presidential nominee, the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee urges candidates to adopt many of Trump’s tactics, issues and approaches — right down to adjusting the way they dress and how they use Twitter.
Oh dear Lord, is there room for that much bombastic ignorance in America, or will we need to annex South America to make room?
You can read the whole dumb memo right here.
Dumbing down as a political tactic is not new to Republicans but they are digging plum through to China on this one.
Still, Baker sees limits to being like Trump. He writes that it is prudent for Senate candidates to craft their own political brands distinct from Trump’s and to distance themselves by quickly condemning his more controversial comments, such as “wacky things about women.”
Ya think? Ya really think?