Surprise! The ‘real people’ in Trump ad campaign are actually Republican operatives
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The Trump administration has a base. That base is very white. That base seems to be willing to buy anything Trump-related. The base is all in on whatever madness Trump concocts. There’s a second tier of conservatives who are voting for Trump that, whilSurprise! The ‘real people’ in Trump ad campaign are actually Republican operatives
The Trump administration has a base. That base is very white. That base seems to be willing to buy anything Trump-related. The base is all in on whatever madness Trump concocts. There’s a second tier of conservatives who are voting for Trump that, while not wearing the silly Trump-branded trinkets of jingoism, want to believe that there is something essentially ideologically conservative represented in Trump that will allow them to sleep at night while kids are sleeping in cages. There is something ideologically conservative about Trump, but it’s mostly the fascistic, xenophobic, anti-Democracy aspects of the Republican Party. Of course, the trick to massaging the minds of this section of the Republican base is by putting up less … hectic faces of Trump support. If you can have someone who sounds reasonable and not someone shrieking about Obama being a secret Muslim while carrying an AR-15 wrapped in an American flag skin, your ad will come across better. Unfortunately for the Trump campaign, most of those conservative types either don’t want to admit they support Trump—at least not on camera—or they’ve gone and begun making ads in support of Joe Biden because Trump is such a monster. Gizmodo reports that the Trump campaign has a solution to this issue: Just hire Republican operatives and call them “real people” in advertisements promoting the idea that your regular middle-class multiethnic and multigendered Americans feel like they want to breathe more of that COVID-19 fresh air the Trump administration has brought about. Read more