Listening to professional pundits on various Big Giant Podcasts can be quite entertaining if you look at it from a properly jaundiced perspective. For example, this is not an actual transcript, but it is a fairly accurate distillation of the all-over-the-place criticism that proprietors of various Big Giant Podcasts are tossing around these days.
Pundits: You have to understand, people are stupid. Voters are stupid. They don't understand anything political and don't know how anything works and you can't expect them to. Trump tells them crazy bullshit and they believe it. So, what are we to do?
Well, then how about starting by kicking the crap out of Trump on stuff like the price of eggs. These stupid voters said that's why they voted for him. He said he'd lower prices. He said he'd do it on Day One. We're well past Day One. Start with that.
Pundits: Look, these people aren't stupid, OK? Voters aren't stupid. They know he's only been in...
And back and forth we go, on and on, whiplashing between "Voters are dum-dums who know nothing and believe nonsense" and "You can't treat voters like dum-dums who know nothing and believe nonsense.".
And by the way, there are at least +75 million voters who aren't stupid, who do understand the stakes and who did understand the assignment. So in future bull sessions among your fellow pundits with Big Giant Podcasts, it would be an enormous boon to your credibility with folks like me who are one of that +75 million to refrain from bitching about "people" and "voters" and "Democrats" and instead get specific about which clusters of MAGA or uncommitted/"independent" voters you are planning on targeting for persuasion and what exactly your big plans are for accomplishing that goal.
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If I hear one more plea for the Democrats to save us but only in the performative way that tickle our balls, I'm going to turn into Hugo Strange.
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