Rolling Stone: Dems’ Messaging Nerds Urged Party Not to Talk About Trump’s Military Takeover

[Afro]

Dems' Messaging Nerds Urged Party Not to Talk About Trump's Military Takeover

Democrats’ favorite research firm told Democrats to avoid discussing Trump’s “rising authoritarianism” and focus on tariffs instead.

www.rollingstone.com

Donald Trump is waging a fascist takeover of the United States, siccing the Justice Department on his political enemies while deploying federal troops to “liberate” Washington, D.C., where crime has been steadily declining. Democratic politicians are responding the only way they know how: by heeding the advice of the wonks who helped get them into this situation in the first place — and whose advice is to avoid discussing what Trump is doing.


Blue Rose Research, the firm led by Democratic establishment darling David Shor, produced a memo earlier this month digging into the effectiveness of various messages related to Trump’s takeover of Washington, D.C. The firm advised that messaging around Trump’s “rising authoritarianism” was “highly unconvincing,” while messages that say Trump wants to “distract” from his damaging tariffs or horrifying Medicaid cuts were more effective. Meanwhile, Republican messaging about how Trump is clamping down on gang violence tested through the roof.


The Aug. 15 memo, a copy of which was reviewed by Rolling Stone, could explain, at least partially, why Democrats haven’t exactly been going to the mat over Trump sending the military into the nation’s capital and him threatening to do the same in other liberal strongholds.


House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) was asked Sunday on CNN what the party’s plan is to fight the president sending troops into Chicago. He only offered that Trump has no authority to do this, and that he supports the men and women working in law enforcement. He also, as the Blue Rose memo suggested is effective, cast the federal takeover as a “distraction” from Trump’s unpopular policies. Jeffries didn’t seem too worked up about any of this, delivering his talking points with a complacency that certainly did not bely that the United States is currently experiencing a militarized dismantling of representative democracy.


Republicans appear convinced — despite the polling data and public backlash to the contrary — that Trump’s military deployments and hostile takeovers on American soil can be a win-win situation for them politically. Various operatives and administration officials tell Rolling Stone that the “tough on crime” politics typically redound to their favor, so they welcome Democrats picking that fight. However, two Trump advisers note, if Democratic figures try to avoid the subject, or tread too gingerly, they risk looking weak to the public in the face of Trump’s displays of armed military force.

 

[acri1]

Nothing really hurts Trump or Republicans politically I don't really think much of anything Dems say matters at this point

 

[Afro]

These are also some of the same people who were on Kamala's campaign team. It's malicious at this point.

 

[BeeCityRoller]

Most of the Corporate Left doesn't care as long as they get their AIPAC Dividend checks over the next four years. If Trump does Tiananmen Square or worse, they've got their Private Jet on the way to UK and the EU.

 

[the cac mamba]

fear of trump failed in 2024

it's time to pivot to mockery of donald trump. i don't want to hear that Dems are scared of trump running in 2028; i want to hear them laughing at the idea of a fat, obese, senile, orange, 82 year old trump trying to stay in power

 

[Goat poster]

The (establishment) Dems are not the answer

We don't really have an answer at the moment

I had my issues with Gavin Newsom in the past but I respect him as someone who at least goes at Trump and you can tell he bothers Trump

More Dems need that energy

Hakeem Jeffries is a BYTCH

 

[Sir Richard Spirit]

fear of trump failed in 2024

it's time to pivot to every day Americans feeling pressure

Fixed

 

[The Wolf Among You]

Nothing really hurts Trump or Republicans politically I don't really think much of anything Dems say matters at this point

This is the answer.
There’s always a pivot to put the blame solely on the Dems.
fukk it! The average American is okay with destroying their country and themselves as long as they can get their irrational hate off.

 

[keond]

I hate to say it but Jeffries was a bad pick. He’s too laid back and on that when they go low we go high shyt. Merrick Garland, Chuck Schumer, Jamie Harrison, all too nice, too passive

 

[the cac mamba]

I hate to say it but Jeffries was a bad pick. He’s too laid back and on that when they go low we go high shyt. Merrick Garland, Chuck Schumer, Jamie Harrison, all too nice, too passive

need to see him in power before i can say that, he hasn't even been Speaker yet. it's not like Pelosi was doing shyt as minority leader

Schumer is a p*ssy, he needs to go. not a wartime consiglieri. if Dems keep him in power after 2027, i'll lose a ton of respect for them

 

[CodeKansas]

Dems probably think the issue is too closely aligned to Black Americans, and since they ain't promising nikkas nothing, it's crickets.




































B-B-B B-B-B B-UNIT!

 

[invalid]

once fascism is democratically elected in, you cannot democratically elect it out.

violence is the only way to get rid of it.
dems are going to have to face this reality soon enough.

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

I hate to say it but Jeffries was a bad pick. He’s too laid back and on that when they go low we go high shyt. Merrick Garland, Chuck Schumer, Jamie Harrison, all too nice, too passive

He’s a coward and owned by AIPAC. He tries to use that city accent to appear like he’s a fighter but his stances show he’s anything but.

 

[Qman11687]

Nothing really hurts Trump or Republicans politically I don't really think much of anything Dems say matters at this point

I think this is why they said it, at this point you gotta see it for yourself

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Be afraid of a frozen withered corpse Demrehs